Speech Fluency Quotes

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

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.

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

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

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

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

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

I've got a speech impediment.

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

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.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

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

Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.

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.

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

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

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

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.