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Quotes About Slow

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
~ Michael Gove
The only traffic I had to deal with in Alabama was a tractor.
~ Devlin Hodges
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
~ Barry Eisler
In my mind, I slowed down and I feel like I translated it over into my game.
~ Michael Carter-Williams
Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.
~ Sonya Hartnett
I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
~ Stanley Kubrick
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
~ Lillian Hellman
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
~ Michael Chabon
the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.
~ Michael Connelly
Like many detectives he preferred to use his own laptop because the computers provided by the department were old and slow and most of them carried more viruses than a Hollywood Boulevard hooker.
~ Michael Connelly
Tu, lentissima fra i lenti, come puoi arrivare laggiù?» «Passo dopo passo.»
~ Michael Ende
His reaction is a mystery until ABC Sports clarifies the event, by replaying it over and again, in slow motion. "Again, we'll look at it with
~ Michael Lewis
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food
~ Michael Pollan
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
~ Robert Browning
Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps.
~ Dana Gould
Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.
~ Kevin Moffett
Ramona, who did not mean to pester her mother, could not see why grown-ups had to be so slow.
~ Beverly Cleary
The ill-fated dodo. Slow, flightless and dangerously trusting, the dodo was driven to extinction just seventy years after first being spotted by European sailors on its island home of Mauritius.
~ Bill Bryson
I wanted a little of that swagger that comes with being able to gaze at the horizon through eyes of chipped granite and say with a slow, manly sniff, 'Yeah, I've shit in the woods
~ Bill Bryson
I thought I had seen a face like Sun Pie's before but couldn't remember just where. He had an unusual way of talking…slow but with slam bang action words.
~ Bob Dylan
Bear-time seems slow to us, perhaps, because we do not have the patience for such a life.
~ Sy Montgomery
Religion will recede not by atheists shouting condemnation, but by the quiet voice of reason slowly making itself heard.
~ Julian Baggini
I would have waited until we got back to the States, waited like paja de arroz, burning slow, slow, until they dropped their guard and then one morning I would have disappeared. Like my father disappeared on my mother and was never seen again. Disappear like everything disappears.
~ Junot Diaz