Stuttering Quotes

“Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“You wouldn't think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a kid with a stutter and a lisp.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“He agreed that I should buy another dictionary or, better yet, a phrase book with standard Spanish expressions. He also suggested that it would be a good idea if I learned to stammer, because people would get bored listening to me and would finish the sentence for me; this way my accent wouldn't be noticed.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Ren...Did you know that Winston Churchill, the greatest orator of all time and one of the greatest leaders in the world, had a speech impediment? All of us botch our words from time to time. And honestly I'd much rather stammer than put my foot in my mouth, and I've done more than my fair share of that. You have no reason to be embarrassed or ashamed for a biological misfire you can't help. It's not an indictment on your intelligence, but it is on the the humanity and decency of anyone cruel enough to mock you for it.”
― sherrilyn kenyon, Time Untime

“Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When you see a stranger, your mouth start dancing like convulsion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“While racial minorities across every civilized country in the world are still waiting for their break, our kind (stutterers) became emperors (i.e., Claudius) and kings (i.e., George VI) for thousands of years. Imagine how well we’re doing for ourselves now.”
― Anas Hamshari, Businessman With An Affliction

“His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject.”
― Peadar Ó Guilín, The Inferior

“Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“What I can't figure out is if you know you're a tease and are fuckin' with me or whether you really are innocent."
"I'm not a tease."
I cock an eyebrow, then look down at my upper thigh where she's parked her hand. She snatches it away. "Okay, I didn't mean to put my hand there. Well, I mean, not really. It just kinda . . . wh . . . what I mean to say is--"
"I like it when you stutter," I say as I pull her down next to me and show her my own version of a Swedish massage until we're interrupted by Sierra and Doug.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“People who stutter are less diffident or more confident in winter.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Finishing off someone’s sentence is annoying, even if you have guessed correctly. Add to that rude, if they stutter.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some excuses are like blaming one’s stutter on winter.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As much as Milly loved seeing Asa on that tractor, a part of her dreaded the days he came to mow, not only because her father made her go out to him with cookies and lemonade and watched her closely the entire time, but also because on those nights, Bett and Twiss would trick her into talking about Asa, and Milly would fall for their tricks. Milly understood Twiss's reasons for teasing her- Twiss didn't want to lose her- but she never understood Bett's.
Bett would start innocently enough. "I heard Milly was talking to someone in the meadow the other day. I heard she baked him a red velvet cake shaped like a heart."
"I heard she did more than that," Twiss would say.
"With Mr. Peterson."
"She likes them old, yep, she does."
"Wrinkly," Bett would say.
"Hairy."
"Pruney!"
When Milly could no longer stand the teasing, she'd pull her blanket over her head and say, "It wasn't Mr. Peterson I was talking to, it was Asa! And it wasn't red velvet cake, it was butter cookies! They weren't shaped like hearts, either!"
And then the laughter would come, and Milly would know she'd been fooled into giving up another part of herself that she preferred to keep secret. The night she first told them about how much she admired Asa's work ethic (when she really just meant him), Bett and Twiss had made fun of her, and of Asa's slight stutter.
"M-M-May I eat one of your cookies?"
"Y-Y-Yes, you may."
"M-M-May I love you like coconut flakes?"
"L-L-Love me like coconut flakes, you may."
They laughed when they said the word "love," but that was the word Milly had begun to think about- the possibility of it- whenever she was with Asa and, even more often, when she was without him. The word was with her when she pinned clothes to the line, or scrubbed the linoleum, or baked a pie. Sometimes, when no one was looking, she'd trace an A into a well of flour or hold a mop as though she were holding Asa's hand.”
― Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters

“Being a stutterer feels like being a writer without a pen!”
― paul sachudhanandam

“Sign language is full of stutters.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Where did you come from, lamentable quality?
Before I had a life you were about to ruin my life.
The mystery of this stays with me.
“Don’t brood about things,” my elders said.
I hadn’t any other experience of enemies from inside.
They were all from outside—big boys
Who cursed me and hit me; motorists; falling trees.
All these you were as bad as, yet inside. When I spoke, you were there.
I could avoid you by singing or acting.
I acted in school plays but was no good at singing.
Immediately after the play you were there again.
You ruined the cast party.
You were not a sign of confidence.
You were not a sign of manliness.
You were stronger than good luck and bad; you survived them both.
You were slowly edged out of my throat by psychoanalysis
You who had been brought in, it seems, like a hired thug
To beat up both sides and distract them
From the main issue: oedipal love. You were horrible!
Tell them, now that you’re back in your thug country,
That you don’t have to be so rough next time you’re called in
But can be milder and have the same effect—unhappiness and pain.”
― Kenneth Koch

“The left brain is perfectly fine getting on with business thank you, and processing it at a regular and predictable clip. Or at least would until the wild, chaotic, imaginative, Dionysian right brain gets wind of things, and shoots electric tendrils like instantaneous, microscopic lighting bolts across the bows of the hemisphere-separating membrane.”
― Sean Bw Parker, Compelling Speech - The Stammering Enigma

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Telling a stutterer to speak up is like telling the lame to get up.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“It is easy to speak, but not very easy when you can't speak easily.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Being nervous. Having anxiety. Stuttering. Autism. When you have any of those, at some point, you're forced to spend most of your time alone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The stranger and the crowd are the stutterer's nightmare.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Stuttering is more of a thing of the mind, than that of the tongue”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Everybody stuttered, but the fellow who stuttered too much was called a stutterer.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Stuttering was such a huge blow to the psyche, such that you felt like you had won a trophy if you spoke and did not stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia