Slow Quotes

2145 Slow quotes by 1557 unique authors

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what,… — Bill Watterson
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and… — John Milton
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach… — John F. Kennedy
He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer… — Hilary McKay
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it… — J M Coetzee
Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country… — Greg Mortenson
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men… — Bertrand Russell
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and… — Alberto Manguel
You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two… — George Orwell
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and… — Peter S. Beagle
And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings... — William Butler Yeats
A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,… — Sherwood Smith
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the… — Terry Tempest Williams
...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee
All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought. — Mitch Albom
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To… — John O'Donohue
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the… — Banksy
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. — Emily Dickinson
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely… — David Foster Wallace

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