Stephanie Beacham Quotes

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.

In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

I have selective hearing.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

My hearing is out of the ordinary as others might see it, but not for me. I'm used to my hearing in the same way that I'm used to the size of my hands.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.