Deaf quotes

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
-- Adam Michnik

#Powerful #Blind #Deaf

Love's not only blind but deaf.
-- Alex Turner

#Blind #Deaf

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud
-- Bhagat Singh

#Sound #Deaf #Loud

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Gossip #Blind #Deaf

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

#Benches #Incredibles #Deaf

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
-- Elias Canetti

#Deaf #Applause

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.
-- Evelyn Glennie

#Musician #Deaf

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
-- Ford Frick

#Deaf #Should

Deaf rage that hears no leader.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Anger #Leader #Deaf

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.
-- Gary Hamel

#Heart #Matter #Deaf

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.
-- Geoffrey Moore

#Data #Blind #Deaf

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
-- George Veditz

#People #Sign Language #Deaf

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf
-- Harold Larwood

#Australia #Would Be #Deaf

Passion is born deaf and dumb.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Passion #Dumb #Deaf

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

#Technology #Ears #Deaf

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.
-- John Gielgud

#Luck #Sides #Deaf

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

#Knowledge #Blind #Deaf

I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.
-- John Scalzi

#People #Culture #Deaf

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
-- Ken Kesey

#Acting #Deaf #Wanted

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
-- Loretta Young

#Dumb #Blind #Deaf

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

#Community #Way #Deaf

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.
-- Margaret Atwood

#World #Deaf

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley

#Dog #Deaf

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.
-- Marlee Matlin

#Winning #Oscars #Deaf

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.
-- Marlee Matlin

#Deaf #Accepting #Young

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
-- Marlee Matlin

#Actresses #Deaf

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
-- Milan Kundera

#Reality #People #Deaf

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.
-- Paul Tournier

#Our World #Deaf #Individual

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
-- Pete Townshend

#Hearing #Trouble #Deaf

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

#People #Speech #Deaf

There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan

#Listening #Deaf

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

#Deaf #Advantage #Concerned

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
-- Terence McKenna

#Men #Environment #Deaf

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
-- Terri Farley

#Tongue #Deaf

As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!
-- Heather Whitestone

#Impossible #Deaf

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.
-- Kevin Shields

#Thinking #Next #Deaf

[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.
-- Paul Laffoley

#Buckminster Fuller #Deaf #Right Time

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
-- Roger L'Estrange

#Ambition #Advice #Deaf

Would you rather be deaf or blind?
-- Michael Atiyah

#Blind #Deaf

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

#Language #Poetic #Deaf

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
-- George Veditz

#People #Sign Language #Deaf