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Quotes About Slow

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
~ Unknown
It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.
~ Eric Ladin
I can only drive slowly.""That's all right.""And I can only do left turns."Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!
~ Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel
Let the kettle boil slowly... For stew boiled in haste is of no use to anyone.
~ Unknown
Feminists have often claimed a moral equivalence for sexual and racial prejudice. There are certain affinities and one or two of these affinities are mildly and paradoxically encouraging. Sexism is like racism: we all feel such impulses. Our parents feel them more strongly than we feel them; our children, we trust, will feel them less strongly than we feel them. People don't change or improve much, but they do evolve. It is very slow.
~ Martin Amis
Death by starvation is slow.
~ Unknown
Afterward, AR50 race director Julie Fingar pulled me aside and explained to me that the whole reason ultrarunners become ultrarunners is that they're too slow to qualify for Boston.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
the blood in fall and winter is thick, low, and slow. Thick blood slows down and remains deeper in the body. It cannot flow through the small capillaries as efficiently, so the extremities are colder.
~ Unknown
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.
~ Maureen Johnson
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.
~ Max Horkheimer
You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...
~ Unknown
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
Didn't anybody respect tradition, making food by hand, the slow way? Hadn't anyone frittered away a Sunday afternoon at the bodega gorging themselves on the bounty of the land—the sparkling wine, the beautifully constructed chorizo?
~ Michael Paterniti
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
~ Michael Pollan
Instead it is about non-hurry rowing. It is about enjoying and having an appreciation. It is about finding what is good in our sport, and happiness. It is about going slow so you can go fast.
~ Unknown
Fast takes longer when you hurry. Keep calm and saunter on.
~ Mike Dooley
The words came so fast they seemed to roll down hill. Nobody ever calls it all that; it's just spring wheat, but I like the words. They heap up and make a picture of a spring that's slow to come, when the ground stays frozen late into March and the air is raw, and the skies are sulky and dark
~ Unknown
Sunja and Yangjin were able to cook the sweets and handle the customers without him. It was never that busy then. It was a late fall afternoon, when business was exceedingly slow and the market women were busy talking with each other since there were so few customers;
~ Min Jin Lee
When the darkness receded, she found herself lying on the bed, still half-dressed...and being watched by human eyes that held a very feline satisfaction. "I said slow." He smiled. "Oops." Charm .
~ Nalini Singh
even if he had to coax her kiss by slow kiss. Cats were good at coaxing. It was only a more sensual aspect of their favorite game—stalking.
~ Nalini Singh
Currently, there is no cure for MS, but there are treatments that modify disease activity, slow the course of the disease, and alleviate its effects.
~ Unknown
Dementia is a particularly long farewell to the self. With most illnesses, death comes quite swiftly. With dementia, the flicker with which life ends is excruciatingly slowed.
~ Unknown