Quotes About Slower

#1. All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

Zadie Smith

#2. When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The journey across the study carpet took forever. Did time seem slower to anyone else? "Lady Miranda," he said, executing a slight bow.
Miranda's fist connected with his nose.

Kristi Ann Hunter

#4. When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes.

Sarah Parcak

#5. We haven't stopped running, but we are getting slower. We have little people running with us now. We have passed others. Our own people will pass us. They will grow and meet others who are young and strong and they will feel as if they are part of the very beginning of life.

N.D. Wilson

#6. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#7. There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.

Suzanne La Follette

#8. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#9. Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

Olivier Martinez

#10. It's like time travel only, you know, slower...

Christopher Moore

#11. The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

Laurie Colwin

#12. Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

Mary Parker Follett

#13. We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

Mark Lawrence

#14. Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.

Hal Higdon

#15. All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

Richard Foreman

#16. The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

Bruce Feiler

#17. Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a massive body like the earth.

Stephen Hawking

#18. Becoming slower and sweeter. She

Fern Michaels

#19. My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

Lincoln Steffens

#20. The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

Jerry Tarkanian

#21. But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. But the mind, or the heart, she didn't know which one it was, but it was slower these days, not catching up, and she felt like a big, fat field mouse scrambling to get up on a ball that was right in front of her turning faster and faster, and she couldn't get her scratchy frantic limbs up onto it.

Elizabeth Strout

#23. Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Richard Rogers

#24. I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

Jacqueline Carey

#25. There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Jeff Galloway

#26. Integrity is always taking the high road, even it means you have to drive a little slower.

Charles F. Glassman

#27. The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#28. Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

Eliot Spitzer

#29. Zoey feels the void waver, flex as if it will break and everything inside her will come spilling out. But then Ken's face appears in her mind and she knows if he were here right now, she would only do one thing differently. She would kill him slower.

Joe Hart

#30. Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary.

Odysseas Elytis

#31. The more important a thing is, the slower it should be done.

Nina George

#32. He was like drinking sweetened coffee: a slow warmth that seeped into you and a buzz that built even slower.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#33. Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

LeAnne Mechelle

#34. I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.

Charles De Lint

#35. So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

Stephenie Meyer

#36. Faster!" Shane yelled. Eve hit the gas hard, and whipped around a slower-moving van. The firing ceased, at least for now. "You see why I didn't want you to stop?"
"Okay, your father is officially off my Christmas list!" Eve yelled. "Oh my God, look at my car!

Rachel Caine

#37. Ronan could feel the size of the mountain under his feet. The oldness of it. Far below there was a heartbeat that wrapped around the world, slower and stronger and more inexorable than Ronan's own

Maggie Stiefvater

#38. I may be a step slower than I was before reaching 30, but I'm doing all the right things. I guess there are some guys who would take it easy in the latter part of their careers, but I'm stepping it up.

Pete Sampras

#39. He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn't matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

Barbara Demick

#40. A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Kin Hubbard

#41. The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

Jim Butcher

#42. It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Augustus Hare

#43. The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower
Peter

Laurell K. Hamilton

#44. That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#45. That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said.
I told you, they age slower out here. It's all the fresh California air," Val replied.
Yes, because that's exactly what Los Angeles is known for," Kate said dryly. "Clean air.

Julie James

#46. The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Camilla Lackberg

#47. Breathe in for 4 counts (you can count faster or slower depending on comfort), hold that breath for 7, and then release for 8.

Robert Duff

#48. The human race. No winners, just slower losers.

Dean Cavanagh

#49. [Rachel] was of the opinion that if baseball were any slower it would be called farming

K.B. Spangler

#50. As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

Robert Wise

#51. Seek a slower, simpler life.

Fennel Hudson

#52. Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.

David Blatner

#53. The longer you wait, and this is true, the slower the hands will move.

Jay Asher

#54. It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.

William Pene Du Bois

#55. Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Niklaus Wirth

#56. The second time they made love was even better than the first. Their bodies fit perfectly together, the eager desperation of their first time segueing into a slower, more fully realized sensual dance.

Claire Thompson

#57. Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong - it does.

Jeff Sutherland

#58. Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal ... the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#59. Maybe when he takes off his Clark Kent glasses and rips open the shirt, he's 'Super-Disappointment.' Slower than a speeding bullet, nowhere near as powerful as a locomotive, able to deliver a less than satisfying sexual experience in a single thrust.

Kerry Heavens

#60. When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.

Bailey White

#61. No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Baruch Spinoza

#62. I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat ... It also smelled better.

David Strathairn

#63. Biological neurons operate at a peak speed of about 200 Hz, a full seven orders of magnitude slower than a modern microprocessor (~ 2 GHz).

Nick Bostrom

#64. With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Mason Cooley

#65. We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it.

C.S. Lewis

#66. I started to kiss him back, slower and clumsy where his had been sure, practiced. I was worried I was doing it wrong, but then a deep sound came from him, almost a growl and instinctively I
knew it was a sound of approval.

J. Lynn

#67. I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

Ed Begley Jr.

#68. I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

Rob Zombie

#69. Gansey blinked, slower. The take-out dinner smell had gone away and all that remained was the heavy, pleasant smell of growing things. That, and Blue's voice on the other end of the phone.

Maggie Stiefvater

#70. The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#71. Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones with lyrics. I write for the song and it leads me to my conclusion.

Ronnie James Dio

#72. We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.

Storm Jameson

#73. Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower.

Fennel Hudson

#74. It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

Robert Reich

#75. Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.

Jason Polan

#76. Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Mitch Kapor

#77. I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

Kim Kardashian

#78. Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you.

Noel DeJesus

#79. When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.

Holly Holm

#80. My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.

Andy Murray

#81. A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.

Tan Twan Eng

#82. If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

Henry Adams

#83. I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

Richard Pryor

#84. When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

Eknath Easwaran

#85. This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

John Butler

#86. Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

Shannon Lee

#87. I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#88. I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'

Sung Kang

#89. The problem with tying yourself to a cripple is that it doesn't make you stronger, it only makes you slower.

Billy Roper

#90. I really wouldn't censor myself. But because it was on such a slower scale, I would throw things out, and I indulged the personal stuff as little flashes of truth. Little in-jokes for anyone who was paying particular attention.

John Hodgman

#91. At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape

Thom Yorke

#92. Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower.

Kin Hubbard

#93. In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

Michio Kaku

#94. It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

Sylvia Earle

#95. So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

Steven Soderbergh

#96. Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

Bobby Nichols

#97. Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

Terence Tao

#98. I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.

John Mackey

#99. I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are vaster and slower and more burdensome than anywhere else I know.

Javier Marias

#100. Jesus doesn't participate in the rat race. He's into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling - all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.

Lysa TerKeurst