Dyslexic Quotes

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite. ~ Yann Martel

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic. ~ Dennis Miller

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem. ~ Caitlyn Jenner

Dyslexia, for me, is rather like being a six-fingered typist on LSD! ~ Stephen Richards

So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects. ~ Carmen Busquets

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming. ~ Jean Dujardin

I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence. ~ Don McCullin

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process. ~ Orlando Bloom

Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius. ~ Stephen Richards

I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school. ~ Ashley Scott

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. ~ David Bailey

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve. ~ Erin Richards

Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it. ~ Charlotte McKinney

Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k ... a C-y-k ... " She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean! ~ Rick Riordan

I don't want anyone to feel they can't achieve their ambitions if they are dyslexic. ~ Mollie King

I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart. ~ Raha Moharrak

Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope. ~ Max Irons

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.' ~ Debbie Macomber

HERNIAS ARE US Wait ... sorry. I'm dyslexic. I squinted and decided it probably read: HERMES EXPRESS ~ Rick Riordan

I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me. ~ Georgia May Jagger

It seems every time I try to add a quote, some word comes out wrong. No, I am not dyslexic, I just have fat fingers. "Live hand in hand..." is how the Moody Blues quote should read. ~ Kerry Hotaling

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. ~ Richard Branson

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.' ~ Caitlyn Jenner

Take off the glasses too." Lucy folded her hands. "I ... " Fable hesitated. "I'm afraid I can't see without them. I'm dyslexic, if you don't mind. ~ Cameron Jace

I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days! ~ Douglas Booth

A lot of people say they are dyslexic; some have to realize that they are just stupid. ~ Bill Maher

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read. ~ Tom Cruise

When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me. ~ Jeremy Irvine

A dyslexic man walks into a bra- T-shirt ~ Darynda Jones

I was so dyslexic as a kid, and still am, and music was such a great form of escape to me. At school I'd keep my head down and try not to get beat up, and then I'd get home and music would be like a drug to me. ~ Daniel Powter

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy. ~ Jackie French

I grew up in a school system ... where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted. ~ Harry Belafonte

Being dyslexic, I'm lucky if I can recognize English words, but, being a demigod, Ancient Greek is sort of hardwired into my brain. 'Ke-rau-noh,' I pronounced. 'Blast?'

Annabeth gave me a wicked little smile. 'Closest term I could think of. Literally it means strike with lightning bolts .'

'Ooh,' Sadie said. 'I love striking things with lightning bolts. ~ Rick Riordan

How did you get hired?" "I checked the box on the application that said "descendant" by mistake. I'm dyslexic and I thought it said something else."
"Okay," I said, thinking that was the worst employment application mistake ever. "And they all believe him to be the true ruler of Fallen?"
"All the Mei-Bettys do. They're, like, obsessed with it. It's a little like restaurant-of-the-body-snatchers, you know?"
"Then why do you work there?" I asked. "Clearly, you figured out something was wrong with them."
"Duh, but it pays well and they provide room and board. I sorta needed the job and a place to stay. It's got free wifi," she said, as if that explained everything. ~ H.D. Smith

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit. ~ James Van Der Beek

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read. ~ Andrew Young

When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic. ~ Jay McLean

People who could easily be mistaken as preteens just shouldn't even try to pull off the look-at-me-I'm-so-serious-and-mysterious-and-sexy look. Especially while driving because, please, you look like you are twelve and a half and driving with a serious look. Most kids who get the opportunity to drive illegally are smiling so big that they look dyslexic and about to piss their pants with excitement because they are in operation of a vehicle that isn't manufactured by PlayStation. ~ Chase Brooks

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic. ~ Robert Blake

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. ~ Robert Benton

We are the visionaries, inventors, and artists. We think differently, see the world differently, and solve problems differently. It is from this difference that the dyslexic brain derives its brilliance. ~ Tiffany Sunday

I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time. ~ Lucy Corin

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic. ~ Salma Hayek

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing. ~ Tanith Lee

Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version. ~ Scott Rosenberg

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities. ~ Chuck Close

Damn fool," Mother whispered, and covered her face with her hands. "It's not enough that he spells out Leon on the roof every year in Christmas lights. Now this!"
My father was dyslexic but would not admit it. ~ Amanda Kyle Williams

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
"I give."
"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. ~ David Foster Wallace

He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable. ~ Jasper Fforde

Hi, well soon return you to the dyslexic production of Bitty Bitty Chang Chang ... ~ Colin Mochrie

When I told my teachers I wanted to be a writer, alot of them encouraged me to lower my expectations and to be more realistic. So I rode away on my magical, winged horse, spraying faerie dust behind me, and laughing manically as I went. ~ M.E. Vaughan

We'll need you to unlock your desk, sir."
"Sorry," Dreyfuss said. "Not until I've read this form."
"You haven't ... looked at it."
"And I'm a very slow reader. Sometimes I wonder if I'm dyslexic. ~ Jordan Castillo Price

Dyslexia is not just a simple reading problem. People with dyslexia usually suffer from emotional problems due to being bullied, especially during their school years. Generally dubbed as 'idiots' and 'slow learners', dyslexic people are socially segregated and can easily lose their self-confidence. Here ~ Craig Donovan

There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher than a second-grade level. ~ Karin Slaughter

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily ... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. ~ Caitlyn Jenner

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid. ~ Richard Ford

[Bill] Gates said he connected with [Eddy] Izzard even though it would appear they have nothing in common - but that might be the point the author is trying to communicate.
"I've recently discovered that I have a lot in common with a funny, dyslexic, transgender actor, comedian, escape artist, unicyclist, ultra-marathoner, and pilot from Great Britain. Except all of the above," Gates wrote. "We're all cut from the same cloth. In his words, 'We are all totally different, but we are all exactly the same ~ Bill Gates

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. ~ David Bailey

With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go. ~ Ozzy Osbourne

It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid. ~ Frankie Boyle

I'm quite dyslexic in school. ~ Georgia Jagger

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. ~ Isabel Gillies