#deaf

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#deaf #communication

If I only could communicate in sign language, I couldn't visit other deaf people overseas because I'd be worried I couldn't understand their accents. ↗

— David McMullen-Sullivan

#communication

There are none so deaf as those listening to ‘All by Myself’ over and over and over again. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#humor #humor

Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind? ↗

— Myron Uhlberg

#noise #rhythm #sound #love

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#music #musicians #men

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#deafening #nation #shot

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

— Stephanie Beacham

#deaf #even #i #i can #remember

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

— Elias Canetti

#deaf #else #listens #only #success

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#deaf #happy #happy marriage #i #i can

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#accept #auditioned #because #clue #deaf