Slowness Quotes

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward.

Justice may be slow, but it does grind inexorably.

I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or third draft I wrote insert pages on a typewriter. But I got rid of all my typewriters about three or four novels ago and now I do everything by hand. I write by hand because it makes me go slow and going slow is what I like.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

I am in no rush to get anywhere.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

... is so slow he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

The Chinese move very slowly. Our customs are so fixed that it takes much time to change them.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.