Slow Quotes

2145 Slow quotes by 1557 unique authors

When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into… — Anne Carson
It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was… — Eoin Colfer
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the… — Sarah Dessen
Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. — Robert Asprin
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like… — Audrey Niffenegger
It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which… — John Steinbeck
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support… — David Wojnarowicz
Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring… — David Gemmell
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too… — Billy Joel
The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow… — Rolf Potts
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.… — Elizabeth Bishop
Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches — P. C. Cast
I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink. — Patricia Gaffney
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer… — Michael Chabon
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki,… — Neil Gaiman
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his… — Guy Davenport
I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed… — Woody Allen
what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way. — Josh Bazell
and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as… — Cormac McCarthy

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