Top 499 Slow Quotes

I’m a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn’t spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn’t want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

I don’t feel like I’ve nearly got to the place where I’m ready to even slow down.

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that’s where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they’ve become. They didn’t have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn’t have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there’s no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

One of the most beautiful sights in my neighborhood is on High Holy Days when people walk to temple. Not only does this bring the traditional legendary weather, but it gives off a psychic signal to slow down.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I sang everything – R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton – and I really didn’t care which I got signed for.

Trends in circulation and advertising – the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I’m such a slow writer.

It’s a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that’s a writerly thing.

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

I’m a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I’m very careful – very selective about what I read because I don’t read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

If you’re on a freeway and want to know if you’re being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that’s OK, but whatever you do… Don’t stop, and don’t quit. Even if it’s hard, you can’t be lazy.

Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.

I’ve always been a slow starter. My first date was with a girl called Cessi. We had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer, and then when we met, I couldn’t look her in the eye.

I think you just learn to maybe slow some of the key situations in the game down.

The problem with Microsoft is that it’s so committee-driven and slow.

I’ve got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I’m doing stuff and I don’t know how to stop or slow down.

I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up your reputation. It was a slow process.

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn’t go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

I’ve done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I’m aiming it for older people – people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It’s easy, you can’t get hurt, it’s very doable, and I’ve done it in ten-minute segments.

The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn’t really ever stop. There’s always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I’m always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

Everybody loves a horror story because it’s a roller coaster ride -you wait for the slow ride to the top then speed down with all the bumps, twists and turns.

I never walk into the studio and say, I’m going to write a song called… ‘X’ or called ‘Slow Me Down.’ I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of… I call it brain vomit. It’s kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I’m unabashedly just writing it down.

You don’t have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don’t – you’re working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn’t about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized. It was just so much more important to take care of my baby and take care of myself in a healthy way; so now, it’s been a slow process, but I’m back in shape.

Proust is a hero of mine. I read ‘A la recherche’ in one go, and I’m a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

I don’t use Facebook or Twitter, and I email once in a blue moon, as I’m a rather slow typist and prefer to pick up the phone and hear a voice.

I’ve teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we’re spearheading a kind of ‘slow education movement in Britain’. It’s based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

I don’t study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I’m not watching film – I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don’t say, ‘Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,’ because it’s got to be my eye.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can’t slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

Hitchcock’s got a very interesting voice; it’s a very controlled, measured rhythm that’s quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds… All of this helps you create the character.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.

My father’s films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It’s the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

As my wife says, I’ll never fully retire, but it’ll start to slow down. I’ll continue to do the local gigs or go to Las Vegas. But I won’t be going out to Ohio to play an Indian casino anymore. Those will probably go by the wayside.

Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it’s slow.

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don’t see anything but the quarterback. You don’t hear anything but the quarterback’s breath. It’s almost like you’re a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything’s just quiet.