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
Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration… — J.R. Ward 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
Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan 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
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue.… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in… — Anonymous 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
“Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our… — Erik Pevernagie 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
Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my… — Marlee Matlin 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
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“O you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me, you do… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
