Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

Цomen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

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