Jeff Bezos Quotes

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible.

I don't like 3D movies that have things popping out of the screen. Firstly, I find it straining on my eyes, and more importantly, it distracts me from the movie.

If you close one eye and imagine a bright light constantly in front of the other eye, your vision is compromised. You can only see about 30 percent of what you should be able to see.

I saw 'Spacehunter 3-D.' It gave me a headache.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.