Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Stuttering Quotes from famous authors such as Mel Tillis, Rhea Ripley, David Shields, Malin Akerman, Kurt Masur. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
1
But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn’t do it without stuttering.
2
Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.
3
I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.
4
I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there’s a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
5
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who’s always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
6
At Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students’ white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class – an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
7
When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.
8
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.
9
Gerald Jonas’s book about stuttering is called ‘The Disorder of Many Theories.’ Back theory seems to suffer from the same ‘Rashomon’ effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.
10
The one thing I’ve learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
