Douglas Slocombe 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Your eyes are very important as a professional footballer.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.

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

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

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

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

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

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.

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

I see better today than I did three or five years ago.

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.”

I batted with contact lenses in the IPL while playing for Delhi Daredevils. I wasn't picking the ball early. So I went back to the glasses.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.

The problem of poor vision has gone unnoticed for too long - it's astounding that 700 years after glasses were first invented, there are still 2.5 billion people across the world without access to something as simple as eye screening or a pair of glasses.

I have a bit of an obsession with eyes and always want to use them.