Quotes About Time

You get old, you slow down.

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.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

I'm a slow reader.

I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting.

I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!

Maybe at 87 you slow down a drop, but between 44 and 64, there is no difference.

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

One of my favorite movies that I've ever seen is '25th Hour.' I love it so much because it's simply about a guy who's going to jail for six years, and this slow, terrible day he has.

With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that, like, I need an audience to know Rose deeply within 15 minutes, within a couple scenes. And that's not something I've ever done before.

I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.

Depending on how slow I move that day, weight training will take two to three hours.

When I was younger, I thought once I hit 25, I'd slow down. Nope!

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Changing behaviour is a very slow process.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.