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Quotes About Stuttering

Jewish shops that were still in operation in Molching. Inside, a small man was stuttering about, crushing the broken glass beneath his feet as he cleaned up.
~ Markus Zusak
A girl has shorter vocal cords than a boy, so it actually takes less effort for her to talk. As for boys' their vocal cords double in length during puberty. This can make it a lot of work for them to spit something out! Guys are four times more likely than girls to have a stuttering problem. So, because many boys aren't as good at talking as girls, they do less of it.
~ Bart King
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
~ Tom Hooper
Simon winced as the man fought for words. He didn't appear to be stuttering so much as emotionally overcome, but it was never pleasant when one couldn't get a sentence out.
~ Julia Quinn
She tries to think, but the monotonous stuttering of the wheels breaks the flow of her thoughts, and the narcotic cowl of sleep tightens over her throbbing forehead—that muffled and yet overpowering railroad-sleep in which one lies rapt and benumbed as though in a shuddering black coal sack made of metal.
~ Stefan Zweig
Their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.
~ Henry Miller
I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'
~ Demetri Martin
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
~ Jean Rostand
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
~ Emily Blunt
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.
~ Paul Haggis
But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.
~ Channing Tatum
For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.... Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.
~ lamb charles iii
I-I have to go, she began, then bit her lip as she realized she was stuttering again-a habit she seemed to have developed in the past twenty-four hours.Forgetting her sketch pad, she stepped off the rock and prepared to make an undignified dash for her car. In the next instant she was whirled around. His face was set, his breathing unsteady. I was wrong. His voice filled her head, emptying it of everything else. I have a great deal of trouble resisting you.
~ Nora Roberts
El tartamudeo lo desarrollan los dulces y sensibles, los que no pueden impedir verlo y sentirlo todo.
~ Guillermo del Toro
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
~ Charles Lamb
What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
~ Dashiell Hammett
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
~ Kate Forsyth
Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.
~ Domo Genesis
You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.
~ Mark Hunt
But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
~ Mel Tillis
I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.
~ Pritam Chakraborty
When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.
~ Tony Evans
I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.
~ David Shields
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
~ Kate Forsyth