Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randall Jarrell

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

Ralph Hodgson

Without a wish, without a will, / I stood upon that silent hill / And stared into the sky until / My eyes were blind with stars and still / I stared into the sky.

We are totally color blind when it comes to crime fighting,

Hannah Kent

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

William Shakespeare

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

The one thing you can take out of an experience like ('The Island') is, hopefully, some wisdom, ... We've talked about it conceptually, the decision to make the movie, how we cast the movie, how we've marketed the movie. There are things to learn on all fronts. But there's not just a formula that works every time. We will learn things from it, but we might go blindly into something similar in the future.

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

Rosemary Mahoney

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Rosemary Mahoney

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

Chris Pronger

We'll go in blind and, hopefully, won't show them too much respect.

Though they, blinded by greed, do not see evil in the destruction of the family, or sin in being treacherous to friends.

I saw it. You had to be blind not to see it.

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Richard Wiseman

Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special.

My parents had two blind dogs, and they did fine. I have a three-legged cat at home that had been hit by a car.

Reggie Bush

My pastor at church told me that what's going on now is similar to a horse race. The horses come out of the gate with blinders on. The reason they do this is so they don't get distracted. Well, that's how I am with this. I'm focused on what is ahead.

Livingstone has a blind spot when it comes to relations with the Jewish community. He has an antipathy, an antagonism, a personal dislike for the Jewish community.

Daniel Kahneman

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Alex Turner

Love's not only blind but deaf.

Chuck Palahniuk

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

The fact that we love each other, the fact that we are blind and we share a passion for music and a profession means that we are always together.

William Williams

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

Evelyn Keyes

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.

Lori Wilde

My husband is the romantic one in our relationship. He's always doing sweet things for me. Each year, we recreate our first date - it was a blind date, and we met at the zoo, followed by a trip to the museum. I'd have to say that's my favorite romantic date.

Tomas Transtromer

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Aristophanes

Do not take a blind guide.

Demetri Martin

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

Daniel Gilbert

Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene...

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Alan Watts

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

David Shapiro

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

Chester Bennington

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.