Best 113 quotes in «deaf quotes» category

Though love may be blind, it sees much; though it may be deaf, it hears much; though it may be mute, it says much; and though it may be lame, it does much.

To silence the love, it takes a deaf. (Pour taire l'amour, - Il faut un sourd)

Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace. The world there was a calm place, even the great Danube no more than a pale ribbon tossed onto the landscape by a girl’s careless hand. Into this stillness I had been ordered to recover. The hills were gold with late summer; my rooms were two, plus a small kitchen, situated upstairs in the back of a cottage at the end of the Herrengasse. From my window I could see onto the courtyard where a linden tree twined skyward — leafy umbilicus canted toward light, warped in the very act of yearning — and I would feed on the sun as if that alone would dismantle the silence around me. At first I raged. Then music raged in me, rising so swiftly I could not write quickly enough to ease the roiling. I would stop to light a lamp, and whatever I’d missed — larks flying to nest, church bells, the shepherd’s home-toward-evening song — rushed in, and I would rage again. I am by nature a conflagration; I would rather leap than sit and be looked at. So when my proud city spread her gypsy skirts, I reentered, burning towards her greater, constant light. Call me rough, ill-tempered, slovenly— I tell you, every tenderness I have ever known has been nothing but thwarted violence, an ache so permanent and deep, the lightest touch awakens it. . . . It is impossible to care enough. I have returned with a second Symphony and 15 Piano Variations which I’ve named Prometheus, after the rogue Titan, the half-a-god who knew the worst sin is to take what cannot be given back. I smile and bow, and the world is loud. And though I dare not lean in to shout Can’t you see that I’m deaf? — I also cannot stop listening.

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

When you ask someone, "Can you see what I'm saying?" They reply, "Huh?" They are visually deaf and some adjustment may need to be made. Mother mother believed a good smack against the back of the skull helps. Unsure about that one!!

When the elevator doors open there is only one other person inside it, a homeless man with electric blue sunglasses and six plastic grocery bags filled with rags. "Close the doors, dammit," he yells as soon as we step inside. "Cam't you see I'm blind?" [¶¶¶¶¶¶...] From the back, the homeless man shoves between us, his bounty rustling in his arms. "Stop yelling," he shouts. though we stand in utter silence. "Can't you tell that I'm deaf?

When the elevator doors open there is only one other person inside it, a homeless man with electric blue sunglasses and six plastic grocery bags filled with rags. "Close the doors, dammit," he yells as soon as we step inside. "Can't you see I'm blind?" [¶¶¶¶¶¶...] From the back, the homeless man shoves between us, his bounty rustling in his arms. "Stop yelling," he shouts. though we stand in utter silence. "Can't you tell that I'm deaf?

When you do not respond to the needs of others, pretending you do not hear them, other people will also pretend they are deaf in time of your need.

When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.

Your hearing status does not make you a better person. Your humanity does.

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

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

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

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

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

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

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

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

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

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

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

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

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

Love is blind but not deaf.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

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

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Say what you want about the deaf.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.