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Deaf Quotes - Page 3

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.99, ACP Press

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.239

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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

Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.94, Harvard University Press

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.186, Vintage

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

"On a dark desert highway" by David Sinclair, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.