Sign Language Quotes

• Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

  Oliver Sacks

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Seeing Voices”, Vintage

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• Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

  George Veditz

  People, Deaf, Given

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• Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Eye, Brain, Watches

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• The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Art, Self

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.51, Yale University Press

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• As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

  George Veditz

  Beautiful, Long, People

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• My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

  Hugo Ball

  Real, Views, Long

  Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Literature, World

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

  Warwick Thornton

  Needs, Language

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gay, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

  Sundra Oakley

  Language, Fluent

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

  Bob Goff

  Sacrifice, Kind, Language

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer

  John Edward

  Prayer, Self, Psychics

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moral, Emotion, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.86, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap

  Red Skelton

  Mother, Dirty, Inspiration

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• Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

  Paul Theroux

  Long, Way, Conversation

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• Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

  Jack Jason

  Grandparent, Television, Firsts

  "Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World". Interview with Nataly Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Memories, Sadness, Intelligent

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• I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

  Sean Berdy

  Song, Language

  "A Candid Conversation with SWITCHED AT BIRTH Star Sean Berdy". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. March 06, 2012.

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• That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

  Hank Azaria

  Actors, Nightmare, British

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

  Jack Jason

  Thinking, Issues, Hearing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don't think anyone would ever notice.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.

  Jack Jason

  Parent, Want, Littles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

  Candace Kita

  College, Wish, Picks

  Interview with Justin Kaehler, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• 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.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Class, Would Be, Teens

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