Shannon Bream Quotes

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

I am very short-sighted but I don't wear my glasses as they give me a headache, so if everyone could just stand closer to me that would help.

My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.

When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

I'm a lousy reader.

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.