Deaf Quotes

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Kindness, Language, Hear

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

Marriage, Good, Husband

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

Music, Wisdom, Nothing

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

Questions, Asked, Answering

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

Hear, Blind, None

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

Art, Sometimes, Blind

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

Women, Men, Business

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.
Larry David

Bad, Try, Sometimes

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

Sometimes, Blind, Master

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

Marriage, Happy, Woman

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

Rock, Musicians, Sounds

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

Music, Makes, Trouble

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

Music, Played, Louder

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

Become, Belief, System

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

Point, Stop, Actress

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.
Ron Fournier

Past, Giving, After

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

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?
Frank Herbert

Person, May, Cannot

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson

Love, Music, Dance

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.
Baruch Spinoza

Music, Time, Good

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
Marlee Matlin

Book, Wanted, Child

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?
Marlee Matlin

Life, Business, Live

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.
Marlee Matlin

Chance, Door, Foot

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.
Marlee Matlin

Give, Wrong, Might

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.
Marlee Matlin

Mind, Person, Happens

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.
Marlee Matlin

Young, Accept, Knew

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not.
Marlee Matlin

Life, Girl, Long

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

Success, Else, Applause

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

Happens, Musician

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Future, Said

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