Slow Quotes

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

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

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?

I'm a slow starter.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.