Deaf And Dumb Quotes

Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's.
- Virginia Woolf

You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process.
- Herman Melville

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
- Marlee Matlin

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

You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.
- David Sedaris

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
- Loretta Young