Stuttering Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle to utter even a word.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The more conscious you are of your stutter, the more likely you are to stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Life and stuttering were similar. There were no shortcuts, and if you tried to force or blast through, you got badly injured.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“When your stutter is chronic, you wonder what magic fluent people use that makes them sound so fluent.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Living with a stutter is like fighting in a battlefield. You either slay the words, or get slain by words.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“It gets worse when depression meets anxiety in a person who stutters.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“It is awkward
to watch
a stutterer stutter, but it is more awkward
to let a stutterer know
that their stutter
makes you feel awkward.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“A stutter knows exactly when to hide, and when to emerge. It knows pretty well how to ruin a perfect conversation.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Conversations went smoothly only when they occurred in your head.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The fear stutterers have is not the fear of speaking, but the fear of others knowing that they stutter.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Hiding a stutter doesn't make it go away. Slowing down does the magic.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia