Best 113 quotes in «deaf quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Love is blind but not deaf.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Say what you want about the deaf.

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

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

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.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the 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.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

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

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

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

Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome

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

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

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.

He invited me to his home for Christmas dinner and his little girl learned a few signs before I got there, and I taught her a few more." I smiled, thinking of little Claudia. "She asked me the sign for love and I spelled out your name.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!