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  • Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. -- Leo Durocher
  • I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on. -- Marian Keyes
  • My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight. -- Kate Smith
  • Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. -- Phyllis Diller
  • My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around. -- John Wooden
  • Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it. -- Mehmet Oz
  • Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. -- Helen Rowland
  • Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Eyesight should learn from reason. -- Johannes Kepler
  • No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side. -- Zig Ziglar
  • How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things. -- Barbara Johnson
  • He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost. -- William Shakespeare
  • I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts. -- Ellen Hollman
  • I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras. -- Terry Richardson
  • You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims. -- Max Lucado
  • In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife. -- Spike Milligan
  • You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that. -- Michelle Chamuel
  • I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. -- John Gould
  • A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. -- John Singer Sargent
  • There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again -- Will Rogers
  • Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is only fashioned by steady coaching, much practice, and experience. -- Johnnie Johnson
  • X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind. -- David Hewson
  • Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent. -- Hanna Rosin
  • I am most grateful for having bad eyesight, which prevented me from becoming a commercial pilot and instead, led me to having the best job in the world - representing the people of California's 47th Congressional District. -- Loretta Sanchez
  • Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress. -- Gabrielle Giffords
  • Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. -- William Shakespeare
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Should the beholder have poor eyesight, he can ask the nearest person which girls look good. Beauty is in the hand of the beer holder. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. -- Al Bernstein
  • To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving. -- Allan McNish
  • I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest. -- Tony Gwynn
  • Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me. -- Rosemary Mahoney
  • When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight. -- Vincent Canby
  • I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, a tremendous thirst, and blurry eyesight. My mom took me to the hospital, and the doctors took some blood tests. My blood sugar was so high that they knew right away. -- Bobby Clarke
  • The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight. -- Daniel Gilbert
  • When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. I told you some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eyesight than others. I don't know what that means. I think they're trying to talk about equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. If you don't have the money to go to college, the word 'equal opportunities' mean nothing -- Jacque Fresco
  • At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras. -- Terry Richardson
  • Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting. -- Eleanor Perenyi
  • The mind is the eyesight of the soul. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. -- Leo Durocher
  • Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. -- Dejan Stojanovic
  • Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight. -- Anuj
  • There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive. -- Robert Breault
  • I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while. -- Margaret Deland
  • The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Just picked up a black pair of scissors thinking they were my glasses. That definitely would't have enhanced my eyesight. -- Phil Lester
  • Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. -- Dante Alighieri
  • If Harry Potter's so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto. -- Frankie Boyle
  • A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers? -- William Shakespeare
  • People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice. -- Ted Williams
  • To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck! -- Jimmy Doolittle
  • When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself. -- Zhuangzi
  • In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits. -- Reinhold Messner
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