Jean Rostand Quotes

I was a closet stutterer.

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

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

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.

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

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.

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

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've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

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'm a lifelong stutterer.

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.

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.

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.

I did have a speech impediment.

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

I've got a speech impediment.

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.

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 had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

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