Dave Grohl Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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!

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

Beer makes people deaf.

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

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

My hearing is usually O.K.

Dad could speak with a strong voice. And luckily, he was very good at lip-reading, so he was able to disguise his deafness well. He tried various hearing aids but would find them fiddly and uncomfortable, and worse, they often made horrible high-pitched noises.

I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.

There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.

Deafness and sign language are extremely close to my heart.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

I fink I gots deaf on me willie.

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it would be like because you can't stop yourself from hearing your own breath or your own heartbeat. You can not remove sound entirely from your life. You can get a sense of what being blind is like by closing and covering your eyes which provides a source of empathy because we can all project ourselves to that. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't.