#stutter

Why would someone for whom talking was torture want to talk all the time before thousands of Athenians? Because otherwise he’d have drown himself at high tide. My sister- so shy, so sincere- once wanted to be an actress. The best jazz drummer I’ve ever heard had only one arm. We all choose a calling that’s the most radical contradiction of ourselves. ↗

— David Shields

#speech-impediments #stammar #stutter #stuttering #life

I will always have a stutter. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#i #stutter #will

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#prepare #still #stutter #want #well

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#been #days #did #i #less

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. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#bad #between #did #got #grade

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. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#had #i #just #lot #obsess

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

#because #even #family #front #guy

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

#cue #front #i #me #put

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

#during #end #i #i tried #me

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others. ↗

— John Stossel

#happiest #i #learned #others #stutter