Blind Man Quotes in Circle of Iron (1978)

Blind Man: Tie two birds together, and even though they have four wings, they cannot fly.

Cord: How long have you been blind?

Blind Man: How long have you been blind?

Cord: I'm not blind.

Blind Man: Am I?

Cord: Do you answer every question with a question?

Blind Man: Do you question every answer?

Cord: Aww, talking to you is like talking to a wall.

Blind Man: Buddha once sat before a wall, and when he arose he was enlightened.

Cord: Do you compare yourself with Buddha?

Blind Man: (chuckles) No. Only to the wall.

Blind Man: Cord... each moment that passes changes you. You do not... cannot possess even yourself. How can you hope to possess anyone or anything else?

Blind Man: A fish saved my life once.

Cord: How?

Blind Man: I ate him.

Cord: You were through here before!

Blind Man: [Blind man slaps Cord's face] How many times?

[Judah, Esther, Miriam and Tirzah enter the city to find it deserted except for a blind beggar]

Judah Ben-Hur: [to Blind Man] Why are the streets deserted?

Blind Man: They have gone to the trial. Alms for the blind?

Judah Ben-Hur: Trial? Whose trial?

Blind Man: The young rabbi from Nazareth. They are wanting his death.

Esther: It cannot be true!

Blind Man: [holding out his cup] Alms?

Judah Ben-Hur: What has he done?

Blind Man: Nothing I know of. For the blind? For the blind? Help for the blind?

[Judah drops a coin in his cup]

Blind Man: Gettin' better, soldier?

Inman: Seems that way.

Blind Man: I wouldn't hurry. The war's almost done.Don't need your help to lose it.

[chuckles]

Inman: Been meanin' to ask you, where'd you take your wound?

Blind Man: Oh, before I was born. Never set eyes on a thing in this world. Not a tree, a gun, or a woman. Put my hand on all three, though.

Doctor: A bit of blood for the love of God.

[kneels before Lis]

Doctor: Have mercy on this poor blind man.

[Fando gestures approval]

Doctor: How nice of you.

[prepares syringe]

Doctor: Here, hold your arm out.

[draws blood]

Doctor: [empties syringe into glass and drinks it]

Blind Man: What about me?

Doctor: Here you go, my son. Lick it clean!

Blind Man: Help will come from above in the shape of... a donkey.

Blind Man: Happy now, asswipe?

Blind Man: I'm a player, but I don't play that way!

Blind Man: Your lies are old but you tell them pretty good.

Blind Man: Everything is everything. And everything is nothing, too.

Blind Man: Things ain't always what they seem. You gotta ask yourself: Is it worth it? Cause the day comes: The Earth Maker is gonna come down and look right in your fucking heart. And then you better know what it is you're doing. Are you a human being or just some hungry ghost out there?

Blind Man: I'm about 50% Indian.

Bobby: [Sarcastically] Congratulations.

Blind Man: It's the desert that makes you crazy. The loneliness out here. Nobody to talk to. People on the run.

Mike Lawford: [after seeing a wall with Pay the Ghost written all over it] What does it mean?

Blind Man: Just what it says I guess.

Blind Man: What do you want?

Charles: [laughing crazily] What do I want? I wanna marry Laura. I thought everybody knew that. I'd even settle for living with her. What do I want? Let's talk about what I have. You know what I have? I have, I have... an unemployed jacket salesman living in my spare room, I have a mother that won't get out of the bathtub, I have a sister that always wants me to be happy, I have a stepfather that wants me to take disco lessons and I have a secretary that wants me to throw parties so that she can make dips. And I have this boss that wants *me* to give his son advice on his sexual problems!

Blind Man: You've been up all night. That only makes things look worse.

Charles: Yeah? I really thought I was having a nervous breakdown for a second there.

Blind Man: [sympathetically] Oh, sure!

Blind Man: What do you have?

Charles: I don't have Laura.

Blind Man: What've you got?

Charles: I haven't got Laura.

Vinnie Harold: [Throwing some coins up by the Saloon] My name is Harold! Vinnie Harold! The moneys to get him a Headstone, to say he was killed by the fastest gun there is.

Blind Man: That's not so.

Vinnie Harold: What?

Blind Man: There's a faster gun then yours.

Vinnie Harold: Who carries it?

Blind Man: You'll find out.

Vinnie Harold: Who carries it?

Blind Man: You'll find out when you least expect it. In a place where'd you'd never expect it.

Vinnie Harold: [Waving his hand in front of his face] You couldn't see me draw! How can you say anyones faster? How can you say anyones faster?

Blind Man: Because there always is! No matter how fast you are theres always somebody faster!