Communication Barrier Quotes

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

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

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

All language is but a poor translation.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone. There were too many people talking..

Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.

Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.