Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Joseph Tacopina

She's pretty much totally deaf now. She can't hear me. We have to write things back and forth. Anything I have to communicate with her now has to be written.

Bob Lee

She's dedicated. She cross-trains all summer long. Her grades are excellent. I think that comes from having to deal with deaf parents.

Paul Carvel

Sign language is useful to the deaf but vital to the Italians.

Elias Canetti

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

Ed Morgan

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Christian Nevel Bovee

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Helen Keller

''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Don McKinnon

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

Anne Paige

We're going to hope for the best and hope that there's a lot of applause and cheering because he likes that. And we'll see what happens.

Paul Kagame

Some of these decisions might not attract applause but certainly people have to understand that in the end, we shall all benefit,

Nancy Cartwright

I will not say ""Springfield"" just to get applause

Mireille Mathieu

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Branch Rickey

The applause belongs to the teams. They are the ones who provided the fans an experience on such an exceptional level that enabled the League overall to reach this previously unattained plateau.

Nina Arianda

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

Oliver Goldsmith

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping

Christian Slater

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.