Language Quote by Bill Allin

“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle to utter…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Living with a stutter is like fighting in a battlefield. You either slay the words, or get slain by words.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

— John Stossel

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic,…

— Kate Forsyth

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Great thinkers and geniuses are good listeners, but many are not gifted with excellent communicative speech.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Everybody stuttered, but the fellow who stuttered too much was called a stutterer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“When your stutter is chronic, you wonder what magic fluent people use that makes them sound so fluent.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together…

— Mary McGrory

“...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.”

— Pat Conroy

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd