Deaf Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image “As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deaf Hearing Sloth Sound Uninterested
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing. — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time. — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being. — MC Yogi Copy Share Image
Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to… — Larry David Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel 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
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
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
