John Cooper Clarke Quotes

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.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

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.

I will always have a stutter.

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.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

I did have a speech impediment.

Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

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.

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

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

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.

Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

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

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

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

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.

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