In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it’s an interesting thing to ride through, you know.
I’m always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I’m very careful.
I use this little trick where I take my arms up above my head, breathe in really slowly, and repeat. I do it before every show, TV or radio, and people always laugh at me. But it really helps.
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
I’ve never grown into loving someone. It’s, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.
In terms of my career, it’s been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.
Slowly and steadily I’m preparing myself for Bollywood and I can’t wait till I get an opportunity.
I think I have slowly kind of had my name out there a little bit more and had some success.
All the materialistic things I have been able to have over the last number of years are slowly being taken away from me. It’s been really challenging but also it’s been encouraging to myself to see what my God is actually doing.
I write really slowly, and my lines are really, really terrible all the time. It takes so long for me to get them to be where I won’t be embarrassed to sing them, and then feel like they’re great.
Everything related to ‘SNL,’ that was very sudden – from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I’m fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could’ve moved a little more slowly. But hey – it’s all material, right?
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.
I’ve slowly made my body adapt and understand what’s going to happen.
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they’re seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn’t that they don’t want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
I think, for me, I really looked at nutrition, talked to some people who knew a lot about nutrition, looked at different meal plans… calorie intake and what I was trying to do. I started slowly. I didn’t start as a ‘diet.’ I started as a lifestyle change.
Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.
If it’s one thing we do really well as a company, it’s that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.
Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn’t an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.
When I was turning 21, I was like, ‘Damn, I’ve been partying like crazy since I was 17…’ I was like, ‘Wow, maybe I should take a break.’ So I stopped doing all that, and I found that a lot of problems I was having in my life, slowly, they didn’t go away: they just became way more apparent to me.
‘300’ was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I’m over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.
In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.
When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I’ve discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I’m going to say something important!
