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Deafness Quotes (page 4)

Neil Gaiman quote: "Scissors! Scissors! Have ye got yer ane scissors?? Are ye..."
Scissors! Scissors! Have ye got yer ane scissors?? Are ye deaf?? Neil Gaiman
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. Madeleine L'Engle
In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it. Franz Kafka
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till a deaf world's ear. Shall be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. The same force formed the sparrow. That fashioned man, the king. The God of the Whole. Gave a spark of soul. To furred and feathered thing. And I am my brother's keeper; And I will fight his fight, And speak the word. For beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations. Barbara Kingsolver
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most. Victor Hugo
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books. Alex Haley
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and..."
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. Flannery O'Connor
Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's. Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare quote: "Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. William Shakespeare
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible! Tom Stoppard
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. Nikos Kazantzakis
Paulo Coelho quote: "The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside..."
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. Paulo Coelho
Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point, kick your ass and/or be entertaining. Remember that and stay light. Even the deaf know good music when they hear it. Jason Mraz
There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture post cards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton. Ayn Rand

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