Jarvis Cocker Quotes

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast.

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

why are we so monumentally slow?

The sluggard is a living insensible.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

It's boredom. No other reason than that.

The reason I trained so hard in school was so that I could be versatile and play any character. With all these in my bag, I'm like a chameleon. I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

I've got a long way to go. I'm not in a hurry.

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.

I talk very slow. I move very slow. I definitely have that Southern drawl and although I never necessarily participated in the activities that go along with screw. I definitely was a huge fan of screw. Because melodically, I don't ever really sing very staccato or very fast. It's really about a groove; it's really about a vibe.