Life In Slow Motion Quotes

#1. Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Steven Wright

#2. It wasn't the first time I played on death's porch, but it didn't mean that I was used to it either. It was weird how in the movies your whole life okays out in slow motion. It was nothing like that. It was horrible.

Adrienne Woods

#3. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

Shailene Woodley

#4. You aren't sure whether you have feelings or not but that's all part of the shrug you have performed in slow motion for your entire life so far.

Sam Pink

#5. -and our lips meet with feels
like not slow motion
but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether.

Sarah Tregay

#6. Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.

Joe Plumeri

#7. It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

Guy Kawasaki

#8. What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering. (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

Donald E. Westlake

#9. Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. It was funny how the monumental shit in your life tends to happen in slow-motion and at warp speed at the same time.

N.R. Walker

#11. The truth is I dislike cars. Whenever I drive a car, I have the feeling I have become invisible. People on the street cannot see you; they only watch your rear fender until it is out of their way.

Walker Percy

#12. My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging around in slow motion. If I were to look into the teardrop for the next million years, I might never find out who the people are, and what they are doing.

Joan Didion

#13. Life is death in slow motion.

Henry Rollins

#14. I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

Ed Begley Jr.

#15. They say that life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I have to agree with that.
[...]
And I am breathless now.
Because I am breaking.
Breaking inside, fragments, jagged and sharp.
Breaking in slow motion.

Karina Halle

#16. I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.

Pete Du Pont

#17. I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

Mark Goddard

#18. A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

Michael Steinhardt

#19. People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

Edwidge Danticat

#20. The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution.

Ian McEwan

#21. The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

Kurt Schwitters

#22. We don't want to have a child that has many illnesses, and that will pass away after a few months. A child must have a good environment, and parents that will take care of it.
[...] It [a Kurdish state] must be a part of stability in this area.

Fuad Hussein