Willard Scott Quotes

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

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

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

People with visions should go to the doctor.

I've always loved glasses. Always have. I've worn glasses since I was in the fifth grade.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

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

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

The subject we talk of is the eye of England: if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavor to take them off; he would be a strange oculist, who should pull out the eye.”

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.

Without contacts, I'm almost blind.

My mother wears glasses, and so do some of my friends. When they get new ones, the old glasses go in a drawer.