“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman 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
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
“Life calls for the highest order of deafness; then we can be, so to speak, happy. It” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.” — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. — I. King Jordan 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
I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Over the centuries people have blamed everything from eating a green chestnut to being cursed by a gypsy. Others have cited being… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was… — Marlee Matlin 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
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
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased...… — Helen Keller 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
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of… — Helen Keller 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
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
“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
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
“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
