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 s...
He who is quick to borrow, is slow to pay.
Slow fires will smolder for a long time.
Poetry is prose in slow motion.
Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.
In bad things be slow; in good things be quick.
Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him.
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we w...
Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land... " Mendel: Moses said that. Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue." Mendel: That was also Moses. Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a...
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
...I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...
They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.
I'm gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!
I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
slow it is a slow business to grow a few words to say love
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens ...
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
