Top 370 Blind Quotes

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to ‘Brokeback Mountain’. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I’m glad I did.

Some of our favorite bands are, like, Third Eye Blind and Counting Crows, and stuff like Danny Elfman and Jon Brion movie scores.

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, ‘How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?’ That’s what mattered to me.

Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Every fight, I’m fighting blind opponents. I don’t know who it’s going to be, who I’m fighting, if I’m really fighting them.

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

Love is blind.

Then there’s going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I’m going back to film it next week. It’s a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.

The way I see it is that love can put an end to this bureaucracy people go through in their relationships. But it can’t blind you to the fact that maybe there are bombs, there are problems and the ozone layer is depleting.

When you’re young, you don’t really know quite what you’re aiming at. You’re very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you’re kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination – against men.

Etta James takes credit for writing some of the lyrics on ‘I’d Rather Go Blind,’ which I think are some of the most phenomenal lyrics I’ve ever heard. There’s arguments now about who wrote it, but she always takes credit for it in her live performances.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you’re making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem – believe me, you will eventually – it will be exaggerated because you didn’t take action.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn’t get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: ‘I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.’ And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

I remember the first scene I shot on ‘The Blind Side.’ I was with Sandra Bullock, and I kept trying to stop myself thinking, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I’m in a movie with her.’

Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private… and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

I want to reach everyone, but I have a dedication to women. Being that I’m a woman myself, and with the things that I’ve gone through, I’ve dealt with a lot of women that are in the dark and blind about relationships who depend on men for their happiness, emotionally and financially.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

I’m blind without my glasses.

I’ve rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

I like to keep working and keep changing. It’s a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe it’s blind optimism.

I am a traditionalist, and I’m an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of our Christian brothers abroad.

I’ll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I’ve done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into – matrimony.

It’s hard to live in a blind and aimless – or dishonest, rather – narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward – or at least think they are and say they are – their true self.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

I went through the immigration thing. But when I got to New York it wasn’t so tough for me. I went to school. I went to P.S. 57, then I went to the Lighthouse for the Blind on 59th St. I guess being blind is a great leveler.

We are blind: we cannot see God with our senses, and our deductions from what we know or are thinking about the word of God itself – how little power they have to bring us to God! We are blind, and our eyes need the touch of our Lord’s hand to enable us at times to even see dimly.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

I was just obsessed with bands like Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20, Everclear – those were shows I was going to. A lot of those bands definitely inspired me. Those bands’ songs are powerful enough that they can last forever.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

It’s so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It’s like the world’s weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, ‘Who is this tool standing up in front of us?’

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don’t exist.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They’re all papered over by the rise.