Deaf Quotes - page 3

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)
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. View quote
Camryn Manheim
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me! View quote
Dev Patel
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others. View quote
Ford Frick
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. View quote
Godfrey Reggio
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. View quote
Gary Hamel
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. View quote
Herb Kohl
Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. View quote
I. King Jordan
At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access. View quote
I. King Jordan
In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss. View quote
Katie Leclerc
I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event. (Lindsay Pearce)
All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. View quote
Marc Bolan
I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. View quote
Michael McKean
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. View quote
Olivia Williams
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. View quote
Richard Masur
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. View quote
Richard Masur
There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process. View quote
Richard Masur
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have. View quote
Shoshannah Stern
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other persons back is turned or having other people parrot what they say. View quote
Shoshannah Stern
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. View quote
Stephanie Beacham
I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing. (Stephanie Beacham)
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. View quote
Sean Berdy
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. View quote
Tim DeKay
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. View quote
William Petersen
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. View quote
Wilfred Burchett