Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Hani Durzy

We made some suggestions that fell on deaf ears - that tells you about the motivations of people who support the bill.

Robert Pattinson

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

Don Haskins

I remember a lot of name calling. If I didn't turn around, they didn't get to turn around. Whatever was said was said to deaf ears.

Juliette G. Low

The first woman I approached tried to tell me she wasn't interested. I pretended that my deafness prevented me from hearing her refusals.

Simon Cowell

It's like Randy went deaf this year. I don't know what happened.

Connie Stevens

It's one of the places you can go and know that there will always be a deaf person for you to talk to.

Bible Bible

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Source Unknown

What you are doing rings so loudly in my ears that I can't hear what you're saying.

Michael Williams

He has big ears and he's real skinny. People like to pick on him. It was like that as long as I could remember.

Merv Adams

He'll reach up and take one of those big old floppy ears and he'll say, 'I can't hear you,' and they'll start that all over again.

Vinnie Jones

I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

William Faulkner

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

Roald Dahl

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

Robert Walpole

I took the right sow by the ear.

Sara Gruen

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

Martha Stewart

I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I fell in a hole.

Albert Smith

Jamaica actually fought well in this innings but they gave it away in the first innings when their wickets fell so cheaply.

Hale Irwin

Jacques' story has touched me pretty deeply, the journey this young man has had, ... The responsibility to help him this week fell largely on my shoulders, and hopefully I did that.

Susan Tedeschi

I wrote 'You Need To Be With Me' when I was madly in love with this guy who just didn't love me. I fell in love with the idea of him and wanted to be together, ... I always thought we'd be together, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. He just got married this summer.

Carlos Fuentes

Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fell on beam, but I told her we didn't need her on beam. We needed her on bars.

Meir Soloveichik

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

Edie Falco

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through-it was being held together by the dirt.

Bobby Hernandez

He didn't see anything, he got shot from behind. He fell to the ground.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Ahmed Hussein

Khartoum supports the Chadian rebels, financially, politically and militarily.

Carmelo Anthony

Just trying to support him in any way we can.

Teresa Johnson

He wants to win and we're just supporting him.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Bill Stetka

He just wanted to be here to show his support for his teammates.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Joe Pemberton

Her support was important to me, ... I could sense her smiling.

David Newhan

He's a teammate. You're supportive of your teammates.

Kathleen Roberts

I think you should come out and show some support for anything in the community.

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Chris Shelton

I just think that if we play the way he tells us to play, we'll win.

Josh Groban

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Jimmy Rushing

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Jerome Bettis

It's been done before, so that tells you something -- it can happen. Hopefully, there'll be another one this year.

Ron Gardenhire

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

Ned Colletti

It tells you who he is, what he is. This is a professional.

Gary Latham

This is an active, not a passive, RFID system. It tells workers what to do with the vehicles and when.