I am deaf to the word 'no'.
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.
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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.
A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
It seems unbelievable that a man should perish in whose favor Christ said to His Mother: 'Behold thy son', provided that he has not turned a deaf ear to the words, which Christ addressed to him: 'Behold thy Mother. '
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e. g. , music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.
Say what you want about the deaf.
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
Real data is messy. . . . It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
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.
I prefer to sleep with deaf girls. Those crazy chicks never have a safe word.
[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.