Speak Quote by Carly Simon Download Open image “I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.” — Carly Simon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Speak Terrible
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone. — Ken Venturi Copy Share Image
Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
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… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment,… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech. — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
I had a bad stutter when I was really young... I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to… — Saul Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
