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

Idiot, Anyone, Anybody

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin

Friend, Changing, Slow

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower.
Mitch Hedberg

Missing, Fingers, Nine

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

Busy, Seems, Bee

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.
Kim Kardashian

Smart, School, Read

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

Good, Bad, Evil

I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Time, Girl, Her

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

Boring, Audience, Faster

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer

Change, Strength, Hard

I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Live, Move

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

War, America, Social

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
Jason Reitman

Decisions, Film, Whether

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
Alexander Payne

Human, Deserve, Audience

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

Try, Speed, Rush

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Ronnie Corbett

Idiot, Anyone, Anybody

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.
Michael Symon

Crazy, Person, Wrong

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.
John Prescott

Important, Thought, Two

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
Lance Bass

Age, Learned, Used

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Livy

Men, Blessings, Recognize

I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Life, Single, Saying

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.
Ryan Kwanten

Home, Heart, Enough

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.
Roger Bannister

Time, Energy, Another

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
Jared Diamond

Human, Loss, Invention

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
Olivier Martinez

Life, Stupid, Down

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

Business, City, Planning

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

Music, Whatever, Process

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
Jonathan Winters

God, Hope, Understand

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

Work, Artist, Days

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
Anthony Weiner

Health, Money, Care

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