Slow Quotes

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

I'm a slow starter.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.