Slow Quotes

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

~ Michael Pollan

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

~ Letitia Baldrige

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

~ Voltaire

The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

~ David Nail

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

~ Leon Foucault

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

~ Bruce Cameron

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

~ Bear Grylls

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

~ Barry Ritholtz

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

~ Cesar Romero

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

~ Geoffrey Canada

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

~ John Masefield

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

~ Socrates

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

~ Max Weber

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

~ Jason Isbell

Slow and steady wins the race.

~ Robert Lloyd

I cannot drive very well. I drive slow and very safe. I don't know cars that well.

~ Selena Gómez

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

~ Eric Bana

I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for.

~ Prince Royce

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.

~ Kathleen Troia Mcfarland

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

~ Rupert Murdoch

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

~ John P. Kotter

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

~ Natalie Jeremijenko

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

~ Jeff Goodell

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

~ Ted Danson

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.

~ Charles Platt