I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn. — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
It can be frustrating, playing a hearing person's perception of what a deaf person is like. — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf. — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You throw all these obstacles in front of people, especially a lot of the deaf people that I've known in my life,… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
A deaf child says'For all of you, I'm deaf; But for me, you all are dumb.' MORAL:Life differs in each perspective. So… — Divya Copy Share Image
Written communication is a tremendous help for me, and so when electronic mail was invented in '71, I got very excited about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I want to do is encourage more of that, more deaf presence in TV, movies, acting, modeling - that's really what… — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You're going to see more inclusion in casting in this town, in Hollywood. You're going to see a lot more differently abled… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Trust me, baby, you weren’t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image