Stutter Quotes

Language is a form of organized stutter. (Marshall McLuhan)
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter. View quote
Ned Vizzini
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school. View quote
Vince Flynn
Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge. View quote
Gareth Gates
Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter. View quote
Mel Tillis
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter. View quote
Adam Sandler
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? View quote
Dashiell Hammett
She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. View quote
Laurie Anderson
I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood. View quote
Nicholas Brendon
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others. (John Stossel)
He would, when engaged in an animated conversation with a friend, talk quickly and well for a few minutes, and then suddenly and without any very apparent cause would begin to stutter so much, that it was often difficult to understand him. View quote
Isa Bowman
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. View quote
Rob Sheffield
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. View quote
Channing Tatum
Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter. View quote
Domo Genesis
It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter. View quote
Emily Blunt
If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone. View quote
Kenyon Martin
People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot. View quote
Kenyon Martin
I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me. View quote
Lee Hazlewood
But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days. View quote
Mel Tillis
I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem. (Peggy Lipton)
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting. View quote
Amy Winehouse
I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish. View quote
Steven Wright
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
In his sermons and books, Hinn has portrayed his childhood as that of a social outcast, handicapped by a severe stutter, who was nonetheless a stellar student. But when G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman, two journalists who write for Personal Freedom Outreach, looked into Hinn's youth, they found that both claims were untrue: nobody remembered Hinn stuttering, and he had dropped out of high school after the 11th grade. View quote
Benny Hinn