Slow Speech Quotes

Are you Polish? Okay, I'll talk slower.

Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.

I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I've had to work on being a slow talker.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.