Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French...
Young Noah: [raising fists in air] Dad! God... I stammered! Frank: Stammered, stuttered... what's the difference. You couldn't understand a damn thing he said. [Allie laughing] Frank: Anyway, I got him to read some poetry aloud and pretty soon his st...
No infant starts to speak with a stammer
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
I didn't steal it,' I stammered in protest. I had so stolen it.
Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
Harold Crick: How are you? Ana Pascal: I'm lousy. I'm being audited. Harold Crick: Of course. Ana Pascal: By a real creep too. Harold Crick: I think I owe you an apology. Ana Pascal: Really? Harold Crick: IRS agents, we're given rigorous aptitude tes...
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.
Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.
