Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don McKinnon

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

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.

Matthew Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Marlee Matlin

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Janie Bess

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

Ed Morgan

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

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.

Carolyn Peck

I think we always have that opportunity. This team has demonstrated we are capable of accepting a challenge.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Yasser Arafat

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

Ben Jordan

Parrish needs closer access to doctors, dentists and restaurants. Accepting the retail means we have to accept the homes, so it's a double-edged sword for us.

Barbara Spiegel

In the big city you get a little bit more of the mocking, staring and the 'hey look' stuff, ... Here, it's so small and accepting it didn't faze anybody.

Mikaela Shiffrin

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Peter Diamandis

In my role as chairman of the X Prize, I had approached well over one hundred corporate chief executive officers regarding sponsorship. Few were able to grasp the importance of this new market...and those who were had great difficulty accepting the risks involved,

John Barry

In the financial markets you are paid for accepting risk. There is more reason to take risk now mainly because people who have taken the risk over the past five years have been richly rewarded.

Elizabeth Anderson

I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer participate. My sister works very hard dealing with the effects of her MS. She is selfless and committed to finding a cure. Each year, instead of accepting a gift for her birthday and Christmas, she asks that we donate to the National MS Society. She is the strongest person I know, and that's why I had to get involved.

Robert Pozen

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

Robert Plant

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Sarah McLachlan

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Pat Barker

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Pat Boone

I hope a great young Reagan will emerge.

Jurgen Klinsmann

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

Marianne Faithfull

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.