#slow

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. ↗

— Robert Benton

#awful #before #called #dyslexia #dyslexic

If things are going slow, I'm itchy. ↗

— Levon Helm

#i #itchy #slow #things

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#architecture #arts #most #slowly #soul

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. ↗

— Evan Davis

#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#believe #doing #down #four #i

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. ↗

— Paul Biya

#culture #democracy #famous #objective #our

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#hard #hard work #i #i am #rewards

I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast. ↗

— Lewis Black

#down #fast #gig #i #i do