Mark Walport Quotes

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

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.

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

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

My eyes have been sensitive to light since the fifth grade. Without glasses I can't see the next hurdle.

It seems like every problem you can have with an eye, I had.

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

My eyesight is not good. You guys will see, in games you'll watch, I will have times where I don't see the catcher very well, especially in low-light conditions. I can get to about 20/40. That's about as good as they can get me with the stigmatisms and stuff I have going on.

I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.

I'm blind without my glasses.

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.

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

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

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

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

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 remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.

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

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

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

I always wear colored prescription contacts for my looks.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.