It is we that are blind, not fortune.
‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ was a song I did on an album with Joe Bonamassa called ‘Don’t Explain,’ and I’ve always been such a huge, huge Etta James fan.
I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He’s bringing out the country’s ugliness. There’s no turning a blind eye anymore.
Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well.
What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It’s famous for it. There’d be blokes dressing up as women as a lark, but ‘EastEnders’ seems blind to the fact that they enjoy a laugh. There should be a cheery chappy on there.
As citizens, I’m asking you not to leave any child behind. I’m asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.
I’ve been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
We can’t be dependent on the police all the time. We can’t turn a blind eye to the crime taking place in the country because we are personally not affected.
Loss is inevitable – you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don’t want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.
They say that love is blind, but it’s trauma that’s blind. Love sees what is.
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can’t spot that CM Punk is magic from the moment he walks in the door, then you’re reading a playbook from an antiquated writer.
I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
My first concert was Third Eye Blind.
We cannot stay enveloped in our own reality and turn a blind eye to the plight of others.
Evolution is unobservable. It’s based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to ‘one side is all we will let you hear.’
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
I want people to think through issues. I’m just tired of blind alignment.
It’s important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.
When we came to Iraq, we didn’t understand the complexity – what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
I don’t like the term ‘colour-blind’ – because I don’t want people to be blind to my colour.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Playing correctly from the small blind can be frustrating and confusing. On the one hand, you already have half the bet in the pot, which should entice you to play more hands. On the other, you’ll have to play out of position on every street, which suggests that you should actually play fewer hands.
What are prophecies? Don’t we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
If one can only see things according to one’s own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
Ladies, you know when you are really into a man, it is hard to see any red flags because you choose to ignore them. Yes, love is truly blind. Sometimes it takes an outside person to observe the situation.
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal!
Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it’s blind.
Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she’s accomplished, no matter how you see her.
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That’s how people steal effectively.
I guess the big thing to say about ‘Pig Farm’ is that none of us knows if it works, and we’re going in blind. It’s in the tradition of ‘Urinetown,’ kind of – but that’s a pretty small tradition. It’s possible that it can fail.
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There’s no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
It’s tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.
I’ve done everything. I’ve been ring crew, I’ve been driver for a blind promoter, I’ve been a valet, I’ve been a referee, I’ve been a ring announcer, I’ve been a corporate officer, play-by-play man, blah, blah, blah. No one has been on my journey.
Who doesn’t love ‘Frogger?’ It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog’s anxiety in the face of the world’s intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines – also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they’re having. But they never feel it themselves, and it’s impossible to explain. It’s like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it’s okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it’s okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.
Although I’m a very emotional man, I just can’t have blind faith; I have to find out for myself.
I guess I’m interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
I auditioned for ‘Avatar’ in Australia. It was a ‘blind’ audition. I didn’t know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.
‘Baywatch’ was one of those shows that you auditioned for all the time as a young girl. I auditioned once to play a blind girl and didn’t get it. I was constantly auditioning for it.
You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
Without contacts, I’m almost blind.
In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.
