Speech Impediment Quotes:

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

- Jimmy Durante

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Marriage, Speech Impediment, Good Wife

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

- Thomas Reid

topic: Advancement, Ambiguity, Speech Impediment, Sects

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.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

topic: Snakes, Circles, Overcoming, Speaking In Tongues, Speech Impediment

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

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence, Peacefulness, Speech Impediment

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

topic: Class, Acting, Actors, Speech Impediment, Impediments

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

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Philosophical, Mindfulness, Today, Speech Impediment, Impediments

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

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

source: Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

topic: Science, Progress, Desire, Speech Impediment, Impediments

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

- Constance Baker Motley

topic: Common, Single Relationship, This Society, Speech Impediment, Emerging

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.

- Joel Salatin

topic: Organization, Hype, Practice, Speech Impediment

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

- Tobe Hooper

topic: Tired, Long, Speech, Speech Impediment

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.

- Frank Miller

topic: Mean, Men, Catholic, Speech Impediment, Spider Man

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.

- John Philip Sousa

topic: Routine, Genius, Development, Speech Impediment, Facilitate

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.

- Martin Rees

topic: Technology, People, Benefits, Speech Impediment, Modern Technology

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

- Peter Stuyvesant

topic: Loss, Afterlife, Legs, Speech Impediment

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

- Henry James Sumner Maine

source: Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.9, Beard Books

topic: Law, Events, Aristocracy, Formidable, Speech Impediment

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

- Stephanie Beacham

topic: Deaf, Advantage, Concerned, Speech Impediment

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.

- David Arquette

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Mexican, Causes, Speech Impediment, Impediments

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

topic: Optimism, What If, Matter, Speech Impediment

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

- George Fetherling

topic: Speech, Young, Therapy, Speech Impediment, Keeping A Journal

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

topic: School, Kids, Speech, Speech Impediment, Impediments

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

- Terry Pratchett

source: "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

topic: Kings, Speech, Kind, Speech Impediment

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

topic: Basketball, Mean, Hair, Speech Impediment, Freckles

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

topic: New York, Cities, Speech, Speech Impediment

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

- Herschel Walker

source: "Herschel Walker: 'Tell the World My Truth'" by Bob Woodruff, Jaime Hennessey and James Hill, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2008.

topic: Kids, Speech, Littles, Speech Impediment

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.

- William H. Macy

topic: Running, Character, Eye, Speech Impediment, Funny Story