Lip Reading Quotes

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

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

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

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

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

[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!

Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.

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

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

The deaf community relies so much on eye contact, expression and body language. It's such a huge part of who we are.

I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

At first, I simply wanted to get a basic understanding of sign language, but as time went on, I really got the bug and wanted to become proficient so that I could make good use of my skills.

I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and that I had overcompensated by lip reading, so that I didn't really understand how bad it was.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.