There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
Lili Taylor
PositiveVisionDeathNegativeSlow
On weekends, we slow it down. Friday nights, we bust out a movie, and there is popcorn all over the place.
Jason Winston George
SlowFridayDownPlacePopcornOver
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.
Jamais Cascio
StrongThinkingPotentialSlowLong
You save most fuel by lifting and coasting in the heavy braking zones at the end of long straights into slow corners.
Lewis Hamilton
SlowEndLongYouHeavyMost
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
Joseph Murray
MeSlowRejectionPersonSkinOwn
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
Kehinde Wiley
BeautyArtMomentSlowYouDown
A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.
Kelly Slater
TimeMountainMovingSlowWaveYou
For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs.
Jon Pardi
SlowPlaySongsManyTooShows
My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.
Gena Lee Nolin
LifeEnjoy LifeChildrenMeSlow
I'm a slow starter, but it's time to flip on the switch.
Joe Cowley
TimeSlowFlipSwitchStarter
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan
NatureTimeStepSupportWaitSlow
I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.
Diana Gabaldon
DayWritingStartSlowI CanNeed
My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion.
Isabella Bird
MountainStepBlackElephantSlow
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
John Burns
MenProgressSlowJudgeWearSure
People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.
Justin Rosenstein
TimePeopleSlowToolAlmostSpend
The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.
Denise Dresser
BorderProcessSlowLongCooperation
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
Hayden Fry
FamilyGreatTeamSlowFeelNever
I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.
Joel Grey
SlowLearnerVery
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen
MeSlowFastAlwaysWatchAttack
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
Donald Fagen
MyselfRedSlowLearnMusiciansWay
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
Carrie P. Meek
HistoryChallengeSlowStandAmerica
The fact that I live in New York, a city that thrives on accessibility, might explain why I was slow to grasp the appeal of Alexa. Here we have bodegas on every corner, most open 24 hours, in case you need to pick up a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of hot sauce in the middle of the night.
Jenna Wortham
LiveNew YorkCityNightSlowYou
After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.
Gunter Blobel
BeautyGreatPeopleFebruarySlow
Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.
David Shields
GoodBestSwimmingSlowBackMissed
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