David Shields Quotes

I've got a speech impediment.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

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.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

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

I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.

I did have a speech impediment.

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Either is both, and Both is neither.