Best Speech Impediment Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“While racial minorities across every civilized country in the world are still waiting for their break, our kind (stutterers) became emperors (i.e., Claudius) and kings (i.e., George VI) for thousands of years. Imagine how well we’re doing for ourselves now.”

Success Affliction Defects Strength Of Will Strength Of Mind Stuttering Stutter Speech Impediment Stutterers Stammerers

Book:Businessman With An Affliction

Source: Businessman With An Affliction

“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.”

Humor Funny Language Comedy Speech Witty Wit Spanish Brazil Foreign Language Speech Impediment Brazilian Porguguese

Book:Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening

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

Speech Impediment

Author:Susan Monk Kidd

“The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.”

People Young Technology Wonderful Modern Benefits Extremes Engaging Basics Sophistication Impediments Modern Technology Speech Impediment

Author:Martin Rees

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

Young Speech Therapy Journal Severe Impediments Keeping A Journal Speech Impediment

Author:George Fetherling

“The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who, in the pilot for a TV series, did some weird thing with their eyes, or some speech impediment or something, and the next thing you know, it's eight years later, and they're still doing that freaking gag.”

Thinking Knows Years Long Stills Character Stories Eye Running Next Actors Tvs Speech Series Eight Pilots Weird Things Impediments Tv Series Gags Funny Story Speech Impediment

Author:William H. Macy

“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”

Inspirational Peace Term Inspiring Greater Acceptance Confidence Ill Ease Self Acceptance Impediments Peacefulness Speech Impediment

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.”

Men Kind Mean Able Wanted Crime Projects Majors Catholic Blind Comic Spiders Imagery Intrigued Impediments Spider Man Daredevil Speech Impediment

Author:Frank Miller

“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!”

Firsts Cities Heard New York Strange Speech First Time New York City Spain Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”

Greater Advancement Ambiguity Impediments Speech Impediment

Book:Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

Source: Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

“Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.”

Practice Research Program Organization Green Locals Despite Heritage Adoption Indigenous Networking Hype Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Joel Salatin

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

Littles Kids Used Speech Beats Fats Little Kid Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Herschel Walker

“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.”

Mean Guy Feet Hair Speech Basketball Red Goofy Impediments Nerdy Red Hair Freckles Speech Impediment

Author:Bill Walton

“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”

Today Loses Tomorrow Mindfulness Philosophical Expecting Anticipation Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Seneca the Younger

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

Long Hard Happens Speech Tired Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Tobe Hooper

“But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.”

Advantage Concerned Various Deaf Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Stephanie Beacham

“There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.”

Common Emerging This Society Impediments Single Relationship Speech Impediment

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“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.”

Ifs Matter Left Speech Optimism What If Bad Things Strokes Moses Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Kirk Douglas

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

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Author:Jimmy Durante

“The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.”

Wells Loss Succeed Legs Afterlife Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Peter Stuyvesant

“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.”

Kind Wanted Actors Acting Class Speech Tough Decided Nerves Stomach Knots Dice Impediments Acting Classes Speech Impediment

Author:Nicholas Brendon

“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”

Science Desire Greater Progress Accounts Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.”

May Development Genius Productions Aids Artistic Routine Assistance Facilitate Impediments Drawbacks Speech Impediment Artistic Genius

Author:John Philip Sousa

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

Kind Fronts Kings Speech Standing Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

Kids School Speech Standing Overweight Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Herschel Walker

“I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.”

Thinking Reason Given Causes Realistic Accents Mexican Gangsters Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:David Arquette