Stammering Quotes

• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Ignorance, Would Be

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

  Plutarch

  Mouths, Speech, Pebbles

  "Parallel Lives". "Life of Demosthenes" by Plutarch,

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• A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Anxiety, Excess

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

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• I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

  Robert Doisneau

  Ideas, Path, Hesitation

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• I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

  Ken Venturi

  Problem, Results, Young

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• Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

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• Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

  Saint Augustine

  Truth, Taken, Lips

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.127, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Struggle, Sound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Prayer, Language

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Heart, Eye

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• No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Children, Heart

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes”, p.63

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• Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Poet

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

  Bob Newhart

  Home, Beverly Hills, Comedy

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• I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Fists, Ghost, Twister

  "It". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.

  Dora Russell

  Art, Children, Mean

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, ch. v, p. 235, 1927.

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• Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

  Mary McCarthy

  Retreat, Language, Term

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

  Peter Ustinov

  Small Rooms, Office, Diplomats

  "Words and Their Masters". Book by Israel Shenker, 1974.

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• Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.199, Penguin

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