Deaf Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

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.

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.

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

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.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

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

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

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

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.

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

You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. Yet in its depth what treasures!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

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

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.

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

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

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