Deaf Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image “I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deaf Deaf and dumb Dumb Grotesque Helping Need help Needs People Use Way
The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more. — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
The words I use, I try to use them the right way because I know people watching and listening. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write. — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image. — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh,… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
When you have deaf experts within and on the stage, from the crew to makeup artists, it feels like that naturally leads to more… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women. — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I will love you till a mute women tells his deaf friend about a blind women that saw a girl with no legs walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. — Richard Masur Copy Share Image