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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -- Mark Twain
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -- Walter Lippmann
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. -- Marlee Matlin
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. -- Leo Tolstoy
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. -- Matthew Henry
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. -- David Ogilvy
Deaf rage that hears no leader. -- Friedrich Schiller
Deaf people can do anything, except hear. -- Marlee Matlin
Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf. -- Prince Philip
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long. -- Rose Fyleman
Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way. -- Grace Gealey
At the end of the day, 'My Deaf Family' is about a typical family that all of us can identify with but told from an unusual and what I believe will be a fascinating perspective. -- Marlee Matlin
Being in the hearing world was more of a challenge than being in the Deaf world, because I had to learn how to write and communicate in a way that I hadn't experienced growing up. -- Jack Jason
Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me. -- Maynard James Keenan
I just invented a new light that shuts off automatically when an ugly person walks in the room. Guaranteed to help them get laid. Darkness is the great equalizer. Blind and Deaf Magazine called my product, Helen Kelleresque. -- Jarod Kintz
The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break. -- Richard Masur
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. -- Tim DeKay
I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf. -- Jack Jason
When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else. -- Jack Jason
I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture. -- Andrew Solomon
Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write. -- Lord Chesterfield
Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect. -- Sean Berdy
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. -- Marc Bolan
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf -- Elias Canetti
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I. -- Loretta Young
I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that. -- Louis Tomlinson
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people. -- Vint Cerf
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. -- Camryn Manheim
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. -- Thomas Brooks
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life. -- I. King Jordan
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. -- Milan Kundera
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. -- Pete Townshend
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams. -- Marlee Matlin
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. -- Marlee Matlin
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 hear them. It's not that bad. -- Larry David
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. -- Bob Riley
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. -- Stephanie Beacham
When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate. -- Marlee Matlin
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. -- Marlee Matlin
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? -- Frank Herbert
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. -- Baruch Spinoza
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people. -- Stephanie Beacham
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. -- Albert Bandura
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns. -- Gary Hamel
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? -- Marlee Matlin
I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids. -- Marlee Matlin
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Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up, Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. -- William Shakespeare
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. -- Eduardo Galeano
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. -- David A. Bednar
In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some believe that they should only sign. Some believe they should only speak. Some people say you should use cued speech. Some say you should use cochlear implants. Some say you shouldn't sign. Some people say you should sign. -- Marlee Matlin
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. -- William Petersen
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed. -- Marlee Matlin
Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist. -- Ray Comfort
I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. -- Sean Berdy
...beer makes people deaf... -- Maggie Stiefvater
I am tone deaf. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Love is blind but not deaf. -- Gilbert Adair
Passion is born deaf and dumb. -- Honore de Balzac
Love's not only blind but deaf. -- Alex Turner
Say what you want about the deaf... -- Jimmy Carr
I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal. -- Tom Holland
I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort. -- Evelyn Waugh
I am deaf to the word 'no'. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Would you rather be deaf or blind? -- Michael Atiyah
Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. -- Bob Dylan
I fink I gots deaf on me willie. -- Christopher Moore
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. -- Terri Farley
Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. -- Akiane Kramarik
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf. -- Nina Simone
Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. -- C. S. Lewis
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends. -- William Shakespeare
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. -- Francis Quarles
Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf. -- Terence McKenna
I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried. -- Robert Pattinson
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? -- Bob Monkhouse
When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. -- Graham Chapman
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. -- Elias Canetti
[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times. -- Paul Laffoley
I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf. -- Vernon Davis
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf. -- Terence McKenna
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others. -- Ford Frick
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. -- George A. Sheehan
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. -- Richard Masur
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. -- Ellis Peters
Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people. -- George Veditz
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. -- Luis Bunuel
A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle. -- John Stott
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. -- John Florio
I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. -- J. K. Rowling
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. -- Thomas Fuller
Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English. -- Rick Riordan
Music is inaudible to deaf people, just as dancing is invisible to me. -- Jarod Kintz
To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Only mind has sight and hearing; all things else are deaf and blind. -- Epicharmus of Kos
If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way. -- Lupe Ontiveros
Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. -- Margaret Atwood
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. -- Evelyn Glennie
I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING. -- Marlee Matlin
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. -- Mark Twain
As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. -- George Veditz
When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it. -- Marlee Matlin
If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud -- Bhagat Singh
Yeah, I enjoy musical chairs. My furniture is deaf, so it gets rather interesting. -- Jarod Kintz
Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices. -- Subcomandante Marcos
Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious. -- Linda Ronstadt
The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction. -- Constance Marie
Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God. -- S. D Gordon
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams. -- Shane Koyczan
You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes. -- Tom Harkin
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. -- Joseph Joubert
I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing. -- Stephanie Beacham

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