Stuttering Quotes

• 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

  Mouths, Pebbles, Scene

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• But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

  Mel Tillis

  Cards, Scripts, Ifs

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• Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

  James Earl Jones

  Laughter, Children, Fall

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• Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

  Kurt Masur

  People, Guy, Musician

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• 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

  Funny, Im Sorry, Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

  Charles Lamb

  Dog, Gentleman, Sake

  Letter to Coleridge, August 6, 1800.

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• Stuttering and trying to find your thoughts, the imperfections make the performances better.

  Justin Roiland

  Imperfection, Trying, Performances

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won't know how to handle all the things I've done wrong.

  Meggie Royer

  Apology, Done, Handle

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• The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

  John Stossel

  I've Learned, Things I've Learned, One Thing

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• What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Gun, Bells

  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 1 (written 1917)

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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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• 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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• To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

  Daniel Handler

  Night, Lucky, Speed

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• I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.

  Felipe Esparza

  Home, Giving, Mexican

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• In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Christian, Epic, Generations

  Howard G. Hendricks (1983). “Taking a stand: what God can do through ordinary you!”, Multnomah Pub

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• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Want

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Book, Poetry

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• When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Art, Emotional

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  Malin Akerman

  Tables, Casts, Preps

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of... god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I’m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something you’re not.

  Lara Stone

  Sexy, Real, Mean

  Interview with Marc Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.

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• It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Issues, Population, Three

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

  Pam Grier

  Character, Thinking, Anxiety

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• In real life, I'm very shy, but people think I'm this angry, sexy kind of - god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So I'm definitely not the person you see in pictures.

  Lara Stone

  Sexy, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.

  Mary McGrory

  Running, Morning, Men

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• I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

  Lena Dunham

  Funny, Moving, Mean

  "Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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