Top 1200 Deaf And Blind Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

I fink I gots deaf on me willie.

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

I knew he would never play for Wales ... he's tone deaf.

Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.

Beer makes people deaf.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

So let me tell you this, when it comes to...trying to introduce other people to Jesus. Don't get mad at them: it's not because they're stupid. It's because they're blind. Yelling louder, arguing harder, pushing firmer won't make someone who is blind see. Pray for them, speak to them, care for them.

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.

Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that kept you warm at night, I let you believe that this was all going to be okay." For me, that's what art has been. Music and books, it's an act of hope to make them, and it's an act of hope to listen to them. That hope will be dashed, you will say goodbye.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we are going to have an honest dialogue about racism, we have to admit that people of color are having a different experience.

I am tone deaf.

I am the fourth generation of being deaf.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

I would love to play a deaf-mute in a film.

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

We have over 25 deaf individuals in my family.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

Say what you want about the deaf.

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.