Quotes About Slow

Turtle makes all men equal.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses?

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

Look at the memory on the turtle!

in the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation.

Oh, con qué lentitud corren las pesadillas!

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The boa digests slowly. The habit digests slowly. (Le boa digère lentement. - L'habitude digère lentement.)

Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to.

The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

Speaking softly and slowly, and breathing through the vocal chords in a low voice, has become the mythical ideal voice for a yoga teacher.

El comandante avanzaba a paso lento, bobeando como si fuera un pensionado

India is not a tiger, and change will always be slower than in East Asia. India is an elephant which has stirred from its slumber and has finally begun to move ahead with a degree of determination. However, unlike a sprinting tiger that runs out of steam, the elephant has stamina.

But I am just a woman who thinks her duty is not to forget. And this duty, which I believe I must fulfill, is: "as a woman" living now I must repeat again and again "I am a woman," because we exist in an epoch still so ancient and ignorant and slow that there is still always the danger of gynocide.

peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth

He peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here and there with gold points.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

The magical gem bracelet, in all of its yellow beauty, was out of its league. My mind and heart couldn't slow down." --- Jennifer Mills

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.