Quotes of: Deaf Keyword

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorpora...

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented wi...

John Berryman

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Marlee Matlin

Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

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

Loretta Young

Some few people are born without any sense of time.As consequence, their sense of place becomes heightened to an excruciating degree. They lie in tall grass and are questioned by poets and painters from all over the world. These time-deaf are beseech...

Alan Lightman

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Tom Holland

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.

Wilfred Burchett

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

Constance Marie

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

Elias Canetti

Chieko: [signing to ref] I'm deaf, not blind!

Babel

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

Lupe Ontiveros

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

Marc Bolan

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Michael Leunig

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people are color-blind; some are intellectually-deaf.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

The Tent

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

Stephanie Beacham

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Ford Frick