#impediment

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster. ↗

— David Arquette

#act #cause #gangster #given #i

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#get #had #happens #hard #i

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#ambiguity #greater #impediment #knowledge #than

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#ease #good #good terms #greater #ill

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#breathe #every #her #impediment #now

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#because #before #being #born #dad

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#although #artistic #assistance #development #drawback

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#home #impediment #now #succeeding #workforce

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

#days #earliest #enjoyed #i #impediment

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