Slower Quotes

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? (George Carlin)

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Benjamin Franklin

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Gustav Mahler

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

Vaughn Monroe

Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

Alain de Botton

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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

Thom Yorke

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption. (Pentti Linkola)

The film 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

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Niklaus Wirth

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

Jaron Lanier

The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.

Rick Riordan

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

Richard Rogers

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

Wendell Willkie

There's a few reasons you don't see black people at my shows. One is because, obviously, black people have slower internet connections. I mean, that would be my guess. I don't know.

Dave Chappelle

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

Mark Millar

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

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days. (Buffy Sainte-Marie)

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Chris Barber

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

Elena Anaya

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

Glenn Ford

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