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Quotes About Slowly

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
They had come to her slowly at first, the children—their lives separate and precious, each one a miracle as individual as a snowflake caught on a mittened palm.
~ Tad Williams
Well, now - he said slowly - that's almost a big enough prize to be tempting.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound Slowly forming in the distance, Then enveloping all other sounds
~ Herbert Mason
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.
~ Al Franken
In most cases, the moment of midlife crisis inception isn't obvious. It comes on slowly like a summer head cold;
~ Steve Ochs
I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
~ Billy Collins
DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
~ D. B. Sweeney
Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
~ Leah Remini
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
~ Sergio Aragones
When you have the ball above the net height on grass, it's easier to play, and when the ball comes at you more slowly, it's easier to play. But when a guy hits hard and deep, I think you have to have been out there playing to understand, but it's hard to really hit the ball.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Earth changes unimaginably slowly except when it changes suddenly and catastrophically, like right now.
~ Michio Kaku
Taggle looked up at her, his amber eyes as deep as the loneliness Kate had felt before he became her friend."The traditional thing, " he said slowly, "involves the river and a sack.
~ Erin Bow, Plain Kate
He shook his head slowly. "Odd. I thought that hearing the truth about everything that has happened would help somehow. But it doesn't. It doesn't help at all.
~ Terry Brooks
If you watch a lot of television, the pacing, the quick cutting is so frenetic, but it doesn't always make it funnier. What I'm noticing is that when things are allowed to unspool more slowly, younger crowds really like it. They really appreciate it.
~ Conan O'Brien
In particular, the creeping advance of an improbable cascade near the second tipping point is reminiscent of a low-budget hit that starts out slowly and builds by word of mouth.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Slowly the sense of ritual stole around the smoky chamber and entered my mind and body.
~ Storm Constantine
He seemed the epitome of the golden prince, but she could smell a danger in him, something that moved slowly and purposefully beneath the surface of his manner.
~ Storm Constantine
I reminded myself that I did not come from a place where mind games were a prerequisite for survival to such an extreme degree, a place where the slightest act of rebellion could have unimaginable consequences. Slowly
~ Suki Kim
The day was unusually sultry. Nancy walked slowly down the elm-shaded street. Reaching the business section, she paused to look in the window of a small shop.
~ Carolyn Keene
The girl showed him her stained finger and reached toward him slowly, aiming for his face. "No," William said. "Bad hobo." The finger kept coming closer.
~ Ilona Andrews
You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Men who succeed reach decisions promptly, and change them, if at all, very slowly. Men who fail, reach decisions, if at all, very slowly, and change them frequently, and quickly.
~ Napoleon Hill
And the pain… the pain of my awareness is unbearable. Because my eyes do not close. Ever. And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself.
~ Neal Shusterman