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Quotes About Slow

It's hard to describe, but I imagine the way I am at this moment is a lot like getting sucked into a vortex. Everything dark and churning, but slow churning instead of fast, and this great weight pulling you down, like it's attached to your feet even if you can't see it. I think, This is what it must be feel like to be trapped in quicksand.
~ Jennifer Niven
Yo habré trabajado mucho toda la vida, pero he trabajado despacio, tomándome todo el tiempo del mundo. No buscaba hacer números o ver desfilar clientes, no. Ir despacio, ése es el secreto de la felicidad.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Les tortues ne participent pas à l'athlétisme
~ AMYNE E. QASEM
On weekends, we slow it down. Friday nights, we bust out a movie, and there is popcorn all over the place.
~ Jason Winston George
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
~ Charles Platt
I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
~ Tania Raymonde
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
~ Lawrence Kasdan
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
I can't sing the praises of the crock pot enough.
~ Mark Brand
My form with Denmark hasn't been too bad. I got off to a very slow start with five goals in my first 50 games.
~ Christian Eriksen
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
~ Bob McDonnell
The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
~ Jason Wu
The flashy, publicity-seeking type of adventurer can grab the headlines and be a hero in the eyes of the public, but he simply can't deliver the goods in high command. On the other hand, the slow, methodical, ritualistic person is absolutely valueless in a key position.
~ Rick Atkinson
Remember, being healthy is basically dying as slowly as possible.
~ Ricky Gervais
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.
~ Ridley Pearson
Over time "Pikers" became accepted as a term that referred to people who were slow of speech, plodding, and not ambitious in business.
~ Rinker Buck
Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.
~ Rob Thurman
Men of great abilities are slow to act. for it is easier to avoid occasions for committing yourself than to come well out of a commitment. Such occasions test your judgment; it is safer to avoid them than to emerge victorious from them. One obligation leads to a greater one, and you come very near to the brink of disaster. BALTASAR GRACIÁN, 1601-1658
~ Robert Greene
We often rush when we should plod, forgetting that we usually accomplish more by persisting than by hurrying.
~ Robert Morgan
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
~ Larry McMurtry
But spring in England is like a prolonged adolescence, stumbling, sweet and slow, a thing of infinitesimal shades, false starts, expectations, deferred hopes, and final showers of glory.
~ Laurie Lee
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.
~ Sylvia Plath
Evolution, blind and slow, has not inched along over billions of years with any intention that it should be decipherable to one or any of its billions of children.
~ Adam Rutherford