Mel Tillis 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'm a lifelong stutterer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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've got a speech impediment.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I did have a speech impediment.

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

I was a closet stutterer.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

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.

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

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.

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.