Slowly Quotes

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

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. It's a death trap.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.