Slowing Quotes (page 25)

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• death
• evening
• even

Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up! Charles Adams

• never give up
• motivational
• growing old

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young. James Taylor

• night
• sea
• black

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Dylan Thomas

• clock
• single
• wall

Then the wooden benches along the walls, where so many outcasts had slept, would be lit by a sort of slow, clocked lightning til the bulb steadied and fastened its tiny feral fury upon the center of the room like a single sullen and manic eye. To burn on there with a steady hate. Til morning wearied and dimmed it away to nothing more than some sort of little old lost gray child of a district-station moon, all its hatred spent. Nelson Algren

• moving
• light
• lightness

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. Jean-Paul Sartre

• sunday
• clock
• belle

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. Truman Capote

• him
• understanding
• thoughts

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck

• personal
• watch
• grandma

I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down."Grandma Mazur Janet Evanovich

• nature
• food
• caring

When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn’t talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you’d never notice. Chuck Palahniuk

• men
• history
• life

My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the... Robert E. Lee

• him
• waiting
• manly

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. Bram Stoker

• love
• vegetation
• wills

My vegetable love will grow. Vaster than empires, and more slow. Andrew Marvell

• best
• tree
• fruit

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere

• world
• true
• summer

It is an edged clich that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that the weather is not so driven, that everywhere there is a sense of slowing down, and most places experience a few years where the summers do not burn and the winters are not yet overly fierce. It is the classic time of romance. It's a time that seductively beckons higher creatures to relax, postpone. It's the last chance to prepare for the end of the world. Vernor Vinge

• wild
• brainly
• walking

I opened my eyesAnd looked up at the rain,And it dripped in my headAnd flowed into my brain,And all that I hear as I lie in my bedIs the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.I step very softly,I walk very slow,I can't do a handstand--I might overflow,So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head. Shel Silverstein