When I was a teenager, I was first exposed to a saying: 'Deaf people can do anything except hear.' But that quote… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I've been involved in the deaf community for years, and my friends in the community that are actors or performers get very… — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I don't know if I want to write about being deaf per se, but I do know that it'll color my story… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think… — Jack Jason Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
What I'm going to make sure happens, if I have anything to say about it, now that people are listening - we… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Wherever the deaf have received an education the method by which it is imparted is the burning question of the day with… — George Veditz Copy Share Image
I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
“Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all… — Michael Dukakis Copy Share Image
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I used to be Miss Deaf America in another lifetime, and literacy was my platform at that time. And it's still very… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
The Deaf population is not a monolith. It's so layered, so complicated. It's happy, it's sad, it's angry. The gamut of human… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
We hear a lot about being female and how women appear in the dating scene, but as a deaf woman, it's a… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am… — Grace Gealey Copy Share Image
I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people,… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Deaf Gain actually means that there are moments when it really is beneficial to be deaf. So I'm very proud to actually… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
“If I were deaf, I’d wear loud clothing. My clothes would also be covered in coffee stains, because Helen Keller is my… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too,… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on… — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do. — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
“You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
