(55 quotes found)
“It's like Randy went deaf this year. I don't know what happened.”
Simon Cowell
“Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart”
Jonathan Swift
“Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.”
William Osler
“Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.”
German Proverb
“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use, ... Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”
Vint Cerf
“They could invest in the (hurricane-ravaged) Gulf region. Instead, they just seem tone deaf.”
David E. Johnson
“At some point when your case falls on deaf ears, you have to start looking elsewhere.”
Dane Litke
“And they who, when reminded of the communications of their Lord, do not fall down thereat deaf and blind.”
quran
“Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.”
Reynolds Price
“It's one of the places you can go and know that there will always be a deaf person for you to talk to.”
Connie Stevens