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Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. — Anna Camp

I always have my Beats by Dr. Dre headphones turned up high. I'll probably be deaf by age 50. — Rutina Wesley

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus ... something like that. — Louis Tomlinson

I am ripe. Ripe enough to hear your Truth. But shout it for one ear remains deaf. — Martin Cosgrove

Love is blind.

Also: deaf, dumb, and on fire. — Julio Alexi Genao

God wants us to call unto Him in prayer because his ear is not deaf to hear our cry. — Euginia Herlihy

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does. — Rosie Malezer

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love. — Anthony Liccione

You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand. — Kahlil Gibran

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. — Bob Dylan

Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind. — Dave Attell

However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world's emptiness clouds. — Sorin Cerin

A man of your advanced years is surely a little deaf." "Sorry, could you speak up? I can't hear you. — E.L. James

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it. — Marlee Matlin

The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune. — George R R Martin

He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see. — Kurt Vonnegut

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing. — Stephanie Beacham

That one doesn't count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you? — H.S. Crow

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. — Richard Masur

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. — Conor Oberst

The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. — Samuel Beckett

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure. — Jorja Fox

The five colors make man's eyes blind, the five notes make his ears deaf, the five tastes injure his palate. — Lao-Tzu

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. — Luis Bunuel

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. — Thomas Fuller

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule. — Robert Jordan

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf. — Marlee Matlin

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

I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing. — Stephen Fry

Okay," she said. "I'm so glad to see someone, who cares if it's a deaf-mute and a retard. — Stephen King

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward ... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence. — Isabel Allende

They said the stock market crashed, or something, but since I'm deaf I didn't hear it (ha-ha). — Stephen King

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent. — John Gielgud

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. — Stephanie Beacham

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others. — Terry Teachout

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb. — Joseph Joubert

If the listener is not ready for the truth, it will fall upon deaf ears. — J.R. Rain

There are chickens, there are eggs, there are deaf girls singing karaoke. Nothing makes sense anymore. — Paul Neilan

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. — Menachem Begin

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

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind. — Akiane Kramarik

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. — Adam Michnik

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it. — Slim Moon

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them. — G.S. Jennsen

Love's not only blind but deaf. — Alex Turner

When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. — Rainn Wilson

Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?' — Bill Maher

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

I fink I gots deaf on me willie. — Christopher Moore

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm crossing my fingers that we grow deaf together. I'm pleased just writing you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Without her, he was blind, deaf, and dumb. — Tim Green

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

Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves. — B. Roman

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf. — Rene Descartes

Someone who only hears laughter in a laugh is deaf. — Milena Michiko Flasar

He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old. — Marlee Matlin

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. — Oscar Wilde

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor

And beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket. — Mary Higgins Clark

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle. — John Stott

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. — Marilyn French

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. — Liz Carpenter

I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots. — Sylvia Plath

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf. — Andrew Solomon

It doesn't matter if she's deaf, he says, My aunty Demi can listen with her eyes, and whisper with her hands. — Chrissie Perry

Love can blind you, but woe to one who becomes both blind and deaf. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Deaf people talk with their mouths full. — Darynda Jones

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

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf — Harold Larwood

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time. — Alan Lightman

I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless. — John Updike

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. — I. King Jordan

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. — Marlee Matlin

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today." — Sandra Cisneros

If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications. — Hortense Calisher

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

was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It — Kenneth Grahame

Can deaf people hear their heartbeat? — Anthony Doerr

Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf. — Sanjo Jendayi

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. — Graham Chapman

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller

Take her home. And-"
"Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf. — Rachel Caine

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way. — Chris Smith

I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING. — Marlee Matlin

Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught. — Alexandre Dumas

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others. — Thomas A. Edison

Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class. — Richard Sherman

...beer makes people deaf... — Maggie Stiefvater

All rock musicians are deaf ... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice. — Maulana Karenga

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Cersei stumbles from one idiocy to the next, helped along by her council of the deaf, the dim and the blind. — George Martin

She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli. — David Sedaris