Deaf Quotes - Page 14

• As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!

  Heather Whitestone

  Impossible

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• Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

  Vinton Cerf

  People, Level Playing Field, Levels

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

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• I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and this includes suffering and grief - even that of others), and that sometimes one catches a glimpse of the link between these happenings. I believe - even when I am myself blind and deaf, or even indifferent - in the existence of a mystery.

  Iris Origo

  Grief, Believe, Suffering

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• I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

  Ken Kesey

  Acting, Wanted, Ifs

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• People of relatively low intelligence can be morally wonderful if they desire the right and the good (not necessarily under the description "right" or "good"). Their low intelligence sometimes results in their accidentally doing something wrong, but doing something wrong out of low intelligence alone is like stepping on a person's foot because you are (literally) blind or missing a cry for help because you are (literally) deaf. We do not judge the blind or deaf person as morally bad.

  Nomy Arpaly

  People, Judging, Missing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Data, Thought Provoking, Marketing

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• I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal.

  Russell Banks

  Flower, Dark, Dumb

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Our World, Individual, Conversation

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• Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother to listen, rather than look? And here are the facts: there are blind species, in the backs of the caves, the bottoms of the oceans. It's not essential on planet Earth to be able to see, to be a species. But there are no deaf animal species. You have to be able to hear, or you won't get the information you need in order to survive.

  Gordon Hempton

  Ocean, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

  Stevie Wonder

  Technology, People, Vision

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Gossip, Blind, Sensitive

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication,inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82”, p.179, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.

  Sandra Brown

  Hate, Book, Heart

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Iraq, Aftermath

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• 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.

  Olivia Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Breathing

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• After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. “Did anyone else notice—” “Yes,” Catherine said. “What do you make of it?” “I haven’t decided yet.” Leo frowned and took a sip of port. “He’s not someone I would pair Bea with.” “Whom would you pair her with?” “Hanged if I know,” Leo said. “Someone with similar interests. The local veterinarian, perhaps?” “He’s eighty-three years old and deaf,” Catherine said. “They would never argue,” Leo pointed out.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Years, Silence, Three

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.

  Loretta Chase

  Beautiful, Axes, Mad

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• Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Laughter, Fate, Blow

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.25, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

  Marian Keyes

  Love Is, Alzheimer's, Dumb

  Marian Keyes (2009). “Last Chance Saloon”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Simple, Tears

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• All my life I've felt on the outside wherever I am - out of the picture, the conversation, at a distance, as though I were the only one able to hear the sounds or words that other's can't, and deaf to the words that they hear. As if I'm outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Distance, Sound, Able

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• What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

  Daniel Keyes

  Benches, Incredibles, Retarded

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• 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

  People, Silence, Speak

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Talking, People, Giving

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Miles Errant”, p.463, Baen Books

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• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Flower, People

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• Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Data Collection, Blind, Middle

  "The Business Book". Book, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2014.

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