Slow-moving Quotes

England is a slow moving country, reluctant to change—deeply reluctant to change.

The turtle couldn't help us.

Sid [the character from 'Ice Age'] is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That's where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.

Democracy is slow moving in the short run, … but if it has the backing of the people, it proves to be more durable.

There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’s exciting: sweaty, passionate nights. But sitting on the veranda outside the home of a sleeping woman who isn’t dreaming about you is slow moving and just plain sad.

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

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.