What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo 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
To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind. — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
“If deafness is like polio Then what started it? The hearing or the people who hate the deaf.” — Phoenix Z Courtney Copy Share Image
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.” — Myron Uhlberg Copy Share Image
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life… — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And… — Sarah-Patton Boyle 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
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we… — George Veditz Copy Share Image
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead… — Kenneth Keniston 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
The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing… — Richard Masur 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
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 late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield 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
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
“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
“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
