Slowly Quotes

1742 Slowly quotes by 1215 unique authors

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their… — Justin Cronin
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work. — Junot Diaz
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things… — Junot Diaz
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. — Ernest Dimnet
Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change… — Beth Ditto
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would… — Umberto Eco
When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it… — Jesse Eisenberg
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. — George Eliot
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was… — Rahm Emanuel
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. — Arthur Erickson
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are… — Craig Ferguson
Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat. — Nicola Formichetti
You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're… — Salma Hayek
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? — Arthur Helps
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace… — Hermann Hesse
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any… — Christopher Hitchens
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the… — Christopher Hitchens
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I… — David Hockney
We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily. — Celeste Holm
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway.… — Anthony Hopkins
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances… — Erica Jong
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. — John F. Kennedy
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. — Barbara Kingsolver
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — Dean Koontz
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. — Charles Lamb

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