Verbal Tic Quotes

Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

I am a bit of a Valley girl, so I say 'you know' and 'like' too much.

When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

My friend says touche way too much. He's a touche bag.

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Weirdly, I didn't even know that I said 'yah' all the time.

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

I don't like when I say 'honestly' - not to imply that I'm otherwise not honest.

Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if it isn't figurative or metaphorical, what is it? It's literal: there's no substitute.

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

Guys say 'like' all the time, and no one notices it.