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Quotes About Slow

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
~ Carl Honore
The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, in-tune with nature.
~ Neal Stephenson
How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?
~ Neal Stephenson
Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
The oil industry—which in productivity terms was one of the great success stories of privatization—also began a slow but steady renationalization
~ Chris Miller
He could do that. Make her forget, even if it was just for a few seconds. She couldn't stop the slow nod of assent. Relief swept through her and she put her head back against the seat and closed her eyes. She didn't have to think anymore.
~ Christine Feehan
Her heart is too slow," Jacques said weakly as he slid from the bed to the floor. He looked startled to find himself there. " O köd belsÅ' --Darkness take it," Eric swore. "What a hell of a night.
~ Christine Feehan
Evolution, he said, is smarter than you are. But this compliment to the intelligence of natural selection is not by any means a concession to the stupid notion of intelligent design. Some of the results are extremely impressive, as we are bound to think in our own case. ... But the process by which the results are attained is slow and infinitely laborious, and has given us a DNA string which is crowded with useless junk and which has much in common with much lower creatures.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Josh se alejó despacio, más o menos en dirección a aquella montaña. El monte Tabor, creo que era. La señora Zebedeo se puso a perseguir a sus hijos como quien persigue pollos
~ Christopher Moore
Time passed slowly, in indrawn breaths and captured prayers and creaks of the chair. Vianne watched the tiny black hands on the mantel clock click forward. She patted the baby's back in rhythm with the passing minutes. Finally
~ Kristin Hannah
Selalu ada yang membuat terlena dan tak berdaya pada hujan, pada rintik dan aromanya, pada bunyi dan melankolinya, pada caranya yang pelan sekaligus brutal dalam memetik kenangan yang tak diinginkan
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
Aneh, memang: selalu ada yang membuat terlena dan tak berdaya pada hujan, pada rintik dan aromanya, pada bunyi dan melankolinya, pada caranya yang pelan sekaligus brutal dalam memetik kenangan yang tak diinginkan.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.
~ Cassandra Clare
Decadence has two rhythms, two melodies, the first a slow waltz, the second dissonant and quick, the plastic creation of the lightening bolt.
~ Catherine Malabou
La tartaruga lunghissima nelle sue operazioni ha lunghissima vita. Così tutto è proporzionato nella natura, e la pigrizia della tartaruga di cui si potrebbe accusar la natura non è veramente pigrizia assoluta cioè considerata nella tartaruga ma rispettiva.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Always ask the turtle.
~ Gloria Steinem
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
~ Chinese proverb
...the snail trail of history...
~ Terri Guillemets
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
~ Kehinde Wiley
The intriguing placidity from the slothful pace of a snail is truly very peaceful. Our world is in need of this calmness to pacify itself
~ Munia Khan
Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
~ Carl Honore
You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
~ David Edwards
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
~ Larry McMurtry