Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Elias Canetti

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

Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.

She's pretty much totally deaf now. She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written.

She's dedicated. She cross-trains all summer long. Her grades are excellent. I think that comes from having to deal with deaf parents.

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Christopher Moore

I fink I gots deaf on me willie.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Helen Keller

''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

We made some suggestions that fell on deaf ears - that tells you about the motivations of people who support the bill.

When you have a dialogue with the deaf you have to stand up and be counted. My message to the Government is stop this disgraceful butchery of public service jobs.

Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

We've been fighting for a long time to strengthen the levees and get full funding for these. Hopefully, it will no longer fall on deaf ears, ... Would the money have saved us? Unfortunately, we'll never know.

Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.

Malik Rose

Will it make a difference? I don't know. I doubt it, to be honest, but it's to the point where I had to say something. If it falls on deaf ears, so be it.

You would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see that as pointing to a direction for the dollar.

Ford Frick

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Jethro Tull

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

The supervisors have turned a deaf ear to the pleas of sick and dying people, and now they have shown that they are equally willing to ignore the law.

Alex Garcia

At home, I'm the only deaf person. When I'm here, I can communicate.

The word is out (among deaf people) that there's an opportunity to live independently.

We try to warn them of the risks but they are deaf to what we say.

Patti LaBelle

They have the right name. They must be deaf if they don't hear me.

Don Haskins

I remember a lot of name calling. If I didn't turn around, they didn't get to turn around. Whatever was said was said to deaf ears.

Evelyn Glennie

How can a profoundly deaf person become a musician?

J. D. Salinger

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

It's a way for the deaf and hearing communities in the Valley to come together.

Simon Cowell

It's like Randy went deaf this year. I don't know what happened.