Famous Quotes & Sayings

The court has spoken plainly that ignorance is no defense for flea markets which profit by turning a blind eye to piracy.

The Disney board has been notoriously insular, famously gullible and blindly loyal to Mr. Eisner.

Frank Gehry

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

James Randi

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

Neil Gaiman

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Libba Bray

There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another...

Luigi Pirandello

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

Pablo Neruda

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

Michael Freeman

You can't stop people from innovating, and I don't see that our screen readers will be able to keep up with that. I still think it's worthwhile for a blind person to try a career as a programmer, but I do fear how well that person will do in the long term.

You can pile all the evidence you want on the premier about whether or not private delivery of health care is a good way to go. His ideology and his personal values may in fact be blinding him to any evidence that might be provided to the contrary.

Charles Ray

You can't always see strokes and blindness or kidney, nerve and heart disease, ... But it's there. Research shows that frequent glucose testing reduces your chances of suffering from any of those complications.

The justice system has turned a blind eye. It's very disappointing and frustrating.

How many blind people do you need to testify? I don't mean to be grotesque, but that is what it is about. It is a parade of people who have serious injuries. Every family suffered from all of this and we all know it.

Rene Syler

I completely got blind sided, ... It didn't make sense to me. I left the game like 'How did that happen?'

Madeleine L'Engle

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Louise Rennison

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.

John Dryden

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

Peter Farrelly

You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

Rumi

Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

Robert A. Heinlein

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Scott Westerfeld

Okay... That's still blind-making.

Robert Hunter

Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

Robert M. Pirsig

Familiarity can blind too.

Robert E. Howard

I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

Sandra Bullock

I've never been a blind romantic.

Walter de La Mare

So, blind to Someone I must be.

William Cowper

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

Zora Neale Hurston

You heard me. You ain't blind.

Wyndham Lewis

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.