#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 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

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts ↗

— Stephen King

#it #lisp #stutter #therapy #tongue-twister

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#i #keep #nervous #starting #stopping

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. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#get #had #i #into #like

I will always have a stutter. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#i #stutter #will

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

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

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

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

#batteries #cause #confusion #foreigners #hard