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Quotes About Blinds

With 25/50 blinds, a loose-aggressive player raised to 150 out of his 2,500 stack from middle position. You decided to call with 9-8 from the button. Both of the blinds folded. The flop came 9-8-4 and your opponent made a continuation bet of 250 into the 375 pot.
~ Jonathan Little
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
~ William Dean Howells
There are so many ways to get involved with 'The Voice.' There is the open call, which tons of people are from. Of the people that you saw that made it past the Blinds, the majority are from open call auditions. They went through every round before you see the Blinds. But weirdly enough, I received a phone call.
~ Chloe Kohanski
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
~ Sean Penn
In tournaments, players typically raise when they enter the pot. In cash games, though, players are more likely to limp in before the flop. That's because cash games are usually deeper-stacked, meaning that players will have a higher ratio of chips in relation to the blinds than they would in a tournament.
~ Daniel Negreanu
In tournaments, you want to steal the blinds as cheaply as possible without risking a high percentage of your chips.
~ Daniel Negreanu
Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.
~ Eugene Jarecki
Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped
~ Kami Garcia
Sun, seeping through the blinds, filled my bedroom with a sulfurous light. I didn't know how long I had slept, but I felt one big twitch of exhaustion.
~ Sylvia Plath
Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!
~ Rudolph Valentino
Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.
~ Tim Lebbon
Outside insects or maybe frogs were making the noise of phone calls. Vertical blinds drifted like bars being moved for a great escape. When you slapped a mosquito against the wall you shook the place.
~ Kate Camp
After tidying up, Adela would plunge the rooms into semidarkness by drawing down the linen blinds. All colors immediately fell an octave lower, the room filled with shadows, as if it had sunk to the bottom of the sea and the light was reflected in mirrors of green water–and the heat of the day began to breathe on the blinds as they stirred slightly in their daydreams.
~ Bruno Schulz
one, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels. The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements. The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed
~ Herman Melville
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
~ Homer
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
~ Albert Camus
Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it.
~ Jenim Dibie
If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.
~ Tom Robbins
A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?
~ Henny Youngman
Lesson: If you're going to view blinds as taxes, be a Republican about them.
~ Colson Whitehead
my own desire for her blinds me when she is near
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.
~ W. W. Jacobs
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
~ Chuck D
Blind stealing is not exclusive to late position play. You can steal blinds from any position, and you should!
~ Daniel Negreanu