“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend,… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For so long I’d been doing what I’d accused other people of doing—I was seeing the deafness, not the people.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The well-being of any household rests on selective acts of blindness and deafness.” — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over… — John Scalzi 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
Brimstone: '...I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall wrinkle, thou… — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even… — Susan Hale Copy Share Image
“At the Shadow level of awareness change is all you really want, but true change is denied you. It is because you… — Richard Rudd Copy Share Image
There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
“Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?” — Myron Uhlberg Copy Share Image
