Deaf Quotes

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

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

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

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.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

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.

Would you rather be deaf or blind?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

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.

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.

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

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

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

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.

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