Quotes about Deaf

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Votes: 4

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Votes: 4

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Votes: 4

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. Votes: 4

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Votes: 4

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Votes: 4

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Votes: 4

Deaf rage that hears no leader. Votes: 3

Deaf people can do anything, except hear. Votes: 3

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf. Votes: 3

Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. Votes: 3

Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way. Votes: 3

At the end of the day, 'My Deaf Family' is about a typical family that all of us can identify with but told from an unusual and what I believe will be a fascinating perspective. Votes: 3

Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up. Votes: 3

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me. Votes: 3

I just invented a new light that shuts off automatically when an ugly person walks in the room. Guaranteed to help them get laid. Darkness is the great equalizer. Blind and Deaf Magazine called my product, Helen Kelleresque. Votes: 3

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break. Votes: 3

In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. Votes: 3

I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf. Votes: 3

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else. Votes: 3

I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture. Votes: 3

Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write. Votes: 3

Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect. Votes: 3

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. Votes: 2

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf Votes: 2

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. Votes: 2

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that. Votes: 2

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. Votes: 2

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. Votes: 2

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. Votes: 2

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. Votes: 2

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life. Votes: 2

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. Votes: 2

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Votes: 2

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. Votes: 2

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. Votes: 2

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams. Votes: 2

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. Votes: 2

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. Votes: 2

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad. Votes: 2

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. Votes: 2

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. Votes: 2

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate. Votes: 2

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. Votes: 2

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Votes: 2

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Votes: 2

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people. Votes: 2

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. Votes: 2

Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns. Votes: 2

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? Votes: 2

I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids. Votes: 2

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection. Votes: 2

Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. Votes: 2

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. Votes: 2

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. Votes: 2

In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some believe that they should only sign. Some believe they should only speak. Some people say you should use cued speech. Some say you should use cochlear implants. Some say you shouldn't sign. Some people say you should sign. Votes: 2

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. Votes: 2

There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. Votes: 2

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist. Votes: 2

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. Votes: 2

...beer makes people deaf... Votes: 0

I am tone deaf. Votes: 0

Love is blind but not deaf. Votes: 0

Passion is born deaf and dumb. Votes: 0

Love's not only blind but deaf. Votes: 0

Say what you want about the deaf... Votes: 0

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal. Votes: 0

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort. Votes: 0

I am deaf to the word 'no'. Votes: 0

Would you rather be deaf or blind? Votes: 0

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. Votes: 0

I fink I gots deaf on me willie. Votes: 0

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. Votes: 0

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. Votes: 0

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. Votes: 0

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf. Votes: 0

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Votes: 0

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends. Votes: 0

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. Votes: 0

Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf. Votes: 0

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried. Votes: 0

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? Votes: 0

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. Votes: 0

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. Votes: 0

[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times. Votes: 0

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf. Votes: 0

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. Votes: 0

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others. Votes: 0

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. Votes: 0

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. Votes: 0

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. Votes: 0

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people. Votes: 0

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. Votes: 0

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle. Votes: 0

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. Votes: 0

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. Votes: 0

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Votes: 0

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English. Votes: 0

Music is inaudible to deaf people, just as dancing is invisible to me. Votes: 0

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf. Votes: 0

Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind. Votes: 0

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything. Votes: 0

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way. Votes: 0

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. Votes: 0

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. Votes: 0

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING. Votes: 0

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. Votes: 0

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. Votes: 0

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it. Votes: 0

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud Votes: 0

Yeah, I enjoy musical chairs. My furniture is deaf, so it gets rather interesting. Votes: 0

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices. Votes: 0

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf. Votes: 0

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious. Votes: 0

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction. Votes: 0

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God. Votes: 0

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams. Votes: 0

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes. Votes: 0

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. Votes: 0

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing. Votes: 0

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all. Votes: 0

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. Votes: 0

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. Votes: 0

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. Votes: 0

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Votes: 0

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass Votes: 0

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains. Votes: 0

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. Votes: 0

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today." Votes: 0

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts. Votes: 0

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf. Votes: 0

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications. Votes: 0

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. Votes: 0

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. Votes: 0

The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it." Votes: 0

I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word. Votes: 0

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. Votes: 0

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. Votes: 0

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness. Votes: 0

As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible! Votes: 0

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others. Votes: 0

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. Votes: 0

Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Votes: 0

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. Votes: 0

I wonder if it's rude for a deaf person to talk with food in their hands. Votes: 0

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see? Votes: 0

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative. Votes: 0

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born. Votes: 0

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it. Votes: 0

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? Votes: 0

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher. Votes: 0

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. Votes: 0

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others. Votes: 0

So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects. Votes: 0

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. Votes: 0

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50. Votes: 0

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever. Votes: 0

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old. Votes: 0

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment. Votes: 0

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. Votes: 0

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb. Votes: 0

If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man. Votes: 0

There are none so deaf as those listening to "˜All by Myself' over and over and over again. Votes: 0

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf Votes: 0

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . . Votes: 0

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time. Votes: 0

Music enters through the ear, not the penis hole. This is probably a common mistake most deaf men make. Votes: 0

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. Votes: 0

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf. Votes: 0

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. Votes: 0

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. Votes: 0

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind. Votes: 0

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent. Votes: 0

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway. Votes: 0

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. Votes: 0

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. Votes: 0

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. Votes: 0

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. Votes: 0

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent." Votes: 0

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. Votes: 0

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped. Votes: 0

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. Votes: 0

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum. Votes: 0

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. Votes: 0

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. Votes: 0

Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control. Votes: 0

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty. Votes: 0

Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe? Votes: 0

Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. Votes: 0

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. Votes: 0

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. Votes: 0

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories. Votes: 0

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim. Votes: 0

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss. Votes: 0

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others. Votes: 0

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. Votes: 0

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf. Votes: 0

Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class. Votes: 0

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows. Votes: 0

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love. Votes: 0

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.' "“ Abigail Votes: 0

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence. Votes: 0

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. Votes: 0

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event. Votes: 0

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! Votes: 0

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. Votes: 0

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness. Votes: 0

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf. Votes: 0

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches. Votes: 0

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. Votes: 0

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. Votes: 0

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment. Votes: 0

My wife at times will say I'm stubborn, selfish, insensitive, vague, deaf at times, blah, blah, blah... but she's never said I was boring! Votes: 0

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. Votes: 0

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way. Votes: 0

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? Votes: 0

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. Votes: 0

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. Votes: 0

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome Votes: 0

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf. Votes: 0

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. Votes: 0

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age. Votes: 0

You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6000 years of existence. It just doesn't. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure. Votes: 0

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear. Votes: 0

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap Votes: 0

Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?' Votes: 0

Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man. Votes: 0

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves. Votes: 0

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. Votes: 0

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf. Votes: 0

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people Votes: 0

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy. Votes: 0

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. Votes: 0

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. Votes: 0

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's Votes: 0

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible. Votes: 0

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. Votes: 0

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations. Votes: 0

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. Votes: 0

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization. Votes: 0

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me! Votes: 0

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization. Votes: 0

There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us. Votes: 0

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. Votes: 0

Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink. Votes: 0

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear. Votes: 0

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago. Votes: 0

Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink. Votes: 0

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are. Votes: 0

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community. Votes: 0

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. Votes: 0

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along. Votes: 0

When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs? Votes: 0

When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy. Votes: 0

Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows). Votes: 0

My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good. Votes: 0

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. Votes: 0

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all. Votes: 0

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb. Votes: 0

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep. Votes: 0

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech. Votes: 0

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden. Votes: 0

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge. Votes: 0

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Votes: 0

Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf. Votes: 0

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. Votes: 0

Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun! Votes: 0

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind. Votes: 0

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan Votes: 0

Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men. Votes: 0

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work. Votes: 0

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel? Votes: 0

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society. Votes: 0

True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still. Votes: 0

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived. Votes: 0

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear. Votes: 0

He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. ("Hunger") Votes: 0

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way. Votes: 0

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. Votes: 0

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear. Votes: 0

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it! Votes: 0

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world. Votes: 0

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all Votes: 0

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Votes: 0

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too. Votes: 0

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all. Votes: 0

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers. Votes: 0

You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears. Votes: 0

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... Votes: 0

A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world. Votes: 0

The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. Votes: 0

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. Votes: 0

There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious. Votes: 0

There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious. Votes: 0

On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something. Votes: 0

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf... Votes: 0

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in. Votes: 0

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... Votes: 0

I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner. Votes: 0

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. Votes: 0

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. Votes: 0