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Deaf People Quotes

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community. Richard Masur
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. Camryn Manheim
Camryn Manheim quote: "I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my..."
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. Camryn Manheim
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
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
Richard Masur quote: "There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally..."
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. Richard Masur
Richard Masur quote: "Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult..."
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. Richard Masur
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions..."
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection. Paul O'Neill
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
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf. Lois McMaster Bujold
He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, "That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first. Caroline B. Cooney
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all. Ken Kesey
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
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 person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. Richard Masur

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