Slow Witted Quotes

#1. Ambassador Noyes had another trait I had noticed in many slow-witted people: he was tremendously interested in philosophy.

Paul Theroux

#2. The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

Marion Ross

#3. Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

Lloyd Alexander

#4. Husband?"
"Aye. Husband."
"The slow-witted one that's been following you? I thought he
was your servant.

G.A. Aiken

#5. The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

June Callwood

#6. As a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

#7. As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

Leo Rosten

#9. It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

Sonia Sotomayor

#10. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Beryl Markham

#12. He rose late. He was recklessly extravagant and a notorious womaniser. The King was never a cipher. But well before his world was clouded by illness and insanity his capacity for public business was limited. He was idle, slow-witted and easily bored.

Jonathan Sumption

#13. Keep my desires and goals in mind. Don't insist that they must or must not be fulfilled. Let me work unfrantically to achieve them. REBT

Albert Ellis

#14. As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

Larenz Tate

#15. Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

William Gurnall

#16. I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

Ben Elton

#17. Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted.

Glen Wilson

#18. I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.

Lauren Oliver

#19. The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

Cliff Martinez

#20. Your life becomes what you believe.

Jewel

#21. Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. She sucked in a breath. "You're ... "
When she didn't finish the sentence, he turned his head and watched her gaze drop to his mouth, which was only a few inches from hers.
"Handy," she finished softly.
"And you're ... "
She smiled. "Stubborn? Annoying?"
"Set to go," he said.

Jill Shalvis