John Gould Quotes

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

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.

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.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword every morning, which is not too difficult and yet not too easy either.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

I had a grandmother who was blind and she taught me to understand sound as an image.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

I don't have time to read books. I've read my share of books throughout my life, and I will continue to do so.

I'm legally blind in one eye, and one eye is a totally different size than the other, and I have, like, a weird crossed-eye thing.

It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.

I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!

I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.

Emotion-enabled wearable glasses can help individuals who are visually impaired read the faces of others, and it can help individuals on the autism spectrum interpret emotion, something that they really struggle with.

I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.