Speech Impediment Sayings

#1. P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Herschel Walker

#2. Uh ... why does your partner keep saying 'ing.' Mr Pin?"
...
"Speech impediment.' said Pin.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking ... my stomach would just be in knots.

Nicholas Brendon

#4. No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Kirk Douglas

#5. When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!

Viggo Mortensen

#6. When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.'

'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him.

He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.

Danielle L. Jensen

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

George Fetherling

#9. I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

Bill Walton

#10. I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

Herschel Walker

#11. I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

Gareth Gates

#13. I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

Tobe Hooper

#14. I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

Walter Dean Myers

#15. Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

Sol Luckman

#16. 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.

Ian Gomez

#17. I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

Adam Carolla

#18. So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

Michael Jackson

#19. It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

Jonny Lang

#20. But in the hours since they'd saved our asses and turned the tide of the battle, I had not spotted either of my brothers amongst the living. Did not know if Cassian or Azriel had even fought on the plain.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well.

Sue Monk Kidd

#22. As long as there are games to play its not over

Alex Ferguson

#23. I like vintage clothes, a lot of '80s band shirts. I wear a lot of my boyfriend's clothes, too.

Sarah Hay

#24. 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.

Patrick Campbell

#25. Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not.

Simone Elkeles

#26. I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip.

Pierce Brosnan

#27. Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Grover Norquist

#28. I like to be home every night with my family.

Lou Ferrigno

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

Jimmy Durante

#30. Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

Dennis Lindley

#31. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Abraham Lincoln

#32. From all that dims Thy calvary O Lamb of God deliver me.

Amy Carmichael

#33. It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!

Tisha Campbell-Martin

#34. I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

Chris Pine