Airplane Quote by Walter Matthau

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

— Mikey Way

Nobody in my school knew who Bill Monroe was, or Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and barely Johnny Cash. Nobody spoke that language. I…

— Marty Stuart

When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was…

— Frank McCourt

I have a speech impediment. I was in speech for six or seven years. It was really bad when I was a kid.

— Darren Elkins

Pretending to write when the teacher starts calling on random people.

— Anonymous

I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to…

— Shannon Sharpe

I was, like, this tiny little kid that was goofy and would always crack jokes or sit in the back of class and not…

— Noah Centineo

I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand…

— Robin Quivers

“...she was uncomfortable with what the professors called "participation," and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There was kind of a pivotal moment in my life in junior high school when my English teacher told me I should be a…

— Sarah Rafferty

“I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites…

— Robbert Dijkgraaf

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

— Zach Ertz