Tourette Quotes

#1. Second, the Tourette's patient cannot not do it: they cannot use free

David Eagleman

#2. As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don't have any twitches ... It's probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome.

Tim Howard

#3. I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really,

Kate Moss

#4. I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

George Eads

#5. You want me and I want you. right?"
Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Christopher Moore

#6. Harb was a ticking time bomb. It was like watching a preacher with Tourette syndrome. You knew the "Shit! Balls!" was coming at some point during the sermon, probably while he was slapping you on the forehead during a faith healing.

John Corwin

#7. Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Unlike the female of John's fantasies, this one spiked way high on the feminine scale and suffered from hair-related Tourette's, a condition that manifested itself in incessant

J.R. Ward

#9. If I woke up and didn't have Tourette's syndrome, it would feel weird - not better or worse, just different.

Tim Howard

#10. I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

Helena Bonham Carter

#11. Ethan seemed to revel in Carter's most hated tics. He'd set them to music. The light bounce of notes, starts and stops, of Ethan's song, it was the music of Carter's Tourette's, and Ethan had made it beautiful. He'd made Carter feel beautiful for having them.

Ryan Loveless

#12. Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

Tim Howard

#13. I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

Dan Aykroyd

#14. Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Sally Phillips

#15. You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in.

Scott Thompson

#16. Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects ... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

Oliver Sacks

#17. People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

Dash Mihok

#18. Life is what you make of it, unless you have tourette's, in which case much becomes involuntary.

Dov Davidoff

#19. My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

Ian Watson

#20. This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

Robin Tunney

#21. What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

Jon Stewart

#22. I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.

Johnny Depp

#23. I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

Dash Mihok

#24. Suddenly, I developed an acute case of Tourette's syndrome, Fuck! That fucking-shit-son-of-an-ass-monkey-dick-weasel!

Christine Zolendz

#25. He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call 'The Great Health' - rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette's.

Oliver Sacks

#26. You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting about George W. Bush. It's like Leftist Tourette's Syndrome. "Why did Obama blow out the budget?" "BUUUUUUUSHHHH!!!!!

Ben Shapiro

#27. Living with Tourette's is not easy.

Tim Howard

#28. I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

Richard Ford

#29. Patients with various other types of movement disorders may also be able to pick up the rhythmic movement or kinetic melody of an animal, so, for example, equestrian therapy may have startling effectiveness for people with parkinsonism, Tourette's syndrome, chorea, or dystonia.

Oliver Sacks

#30. So God wants you to marry the girl who believed I was a Frenchman suffering from hemorrhoidal Tourette's?

John Green

#31. There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

James Wolk

#32. Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain
same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Lethem

#33. Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

Gary Krist

#34. Yo, yo, yo, check it out, said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

Christopher Moore

#35. It's amazing how a conversation between two moms ends up sounding like a battle between people with Tourette's.

Heather Balog

#36. Do you ever stop talking?" I say. "Seriously, it's like you have a superarticulate form of Tourette syndrome.

Matthew Norman

#37. I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.

Tim Howard

#38. Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

Dylan McDermott

#39. I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Francine Prose

#40. You duck! You flying yellow duck! And you took this long to tell me?! When Sarah gets excited, random animals pop into her speech like she has an Old MacDonald Had a Farm kind of Tourette syndrome.

Jandy Nelson

#41. You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's syndrome.

Christopher Moore