Deaf Quotes

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

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

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.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.

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

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.

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

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

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.

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

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.

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

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.