#deaf

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#hearing #helped #i #invent #makes

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ↗

— Mark Twain

#deaf #hear #kindness #language #see

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#gains #loses #misses #more #nonsense

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#insensitive #mellow #musicians #rock #rock musicians

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community. ↗

— Richard Masur

#after-school #any #characters #community #connection

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deafness #drive #four #hear #i

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #happens #hollywood #just #know

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #always #book #chicago #child

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#change #deafness #everything #example #except

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

#blind man #connection #course #deaf #deaf people