However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
SayingSlowLanguageAmericanGenius
Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.
Andy Hurley
TimeSlowGrowStopYoungNever
My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.
Fred Funk
TimeBestWaitingPeopleSlowIrony
On the ice, if I slow down, I can coast behind somebody for a couple of laps. If I slow down on the run, it'll turn into a walk.
Apolo Ohno
WalkSlowIceDownI CanRun
My brother is really, really slow.
Usain Bolt
BrotherSlowReally
However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.
Michael Frome
SlowDownLeisureNaturalWonders
Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.
Fred Wilson
MoneyFreeSlowFastSoftwareCosts
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
FutureWorldSlowInternetLandscape
We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
Tamara Ecclestone
SlowDownGoNeedAcupuncture
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
John Wayne
CommunicationSlowToo MuchSayTalk
Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.
Eric Alterman
DailyAdvertisingSlowInternetLook
Seabeck is slow to change.
Ashley Wagner
ChangeSlow
The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
Sabine Baring-Gould
BestRiverSlowSidesStreamLike
It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.
Amanda Lindhout
SlowUnderstandingEnvironmentReally
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem
MovingSlowFamousEverythingMotion
This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.
Wolfgang Schauble
PeopleDirectionSlowPoliticalTrue
We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
Ramez Naam
BestEnergySlowEfficiencyDown
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
Alvin Dark
GameSlowLongWayBallLong Way
We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.
Elon Musk
SlowSpeechYouPhoneThroughYour
I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
Philip Schultz
LoveGreatDayReadingSlowFast
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.
Orson F. Whitney
GodMenSlowDarkDownLooks
My music wasn't accessible. I used to make music that was slow.
Sophie Hawley-Weld
MusicSlowUsedMakeAccessible
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
David Edwards
SlowBluesNeverNowhereGoingGet
At one time, late Yash-ji, too, wanted to do two to three films, but somehow, I am not the kind to do too many things at the same time. I like to take it slow and steady.
Sunny Deol
TimeI AmSlowLateThreeKind
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