Slow Motion Quotes

• A lot of things look cooler in slow motion. Eating isn't one of them.

  Demetri Martin

  Looks, Eating

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2013

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• Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

  Robert McKee

  Influence, Persuasion

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• Slow motion gets you there faster.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Faster

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• Life is death in slow motion.

  Henry Rollins

  Life Is

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.125, Villard

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• Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

  Sarah Kay

  Color, People, Watches

  Sarah Kay (2009). “Pieces of Glass: A Moment of Tragedy, a Lifetime of Faith”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Poetry is prose in slow motion.

  Nicholson Baker

  Poetry Is, Prose

  Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

  Amber Heard

  Running, Beach

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

  Julian Casablancas

  Enjoy, Songwriting, Improvising

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• Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

  Colson Whitehead

  Memories, Details, Awful

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• I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Eye, Smell, Want

  Song: Foolish Love, Album: Rufus Wainwright

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• We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

  George Will

  Christian, Religious, Suffering

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• I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

  Taylor Swift

  Giving, Way, Moments

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Journey, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

  Eminem

  Moving, Fame, Lodges

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• The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

  David Simon

  War, Holocaust, Drug

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• Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

  Bill Paxton

  Feelings, Forget, Audience

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Drawing, Actors

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• He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.

  Tammara Webber

  Crazy, Done, Mood

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• My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

  Joan Baez

  Life, Fall, Littles

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

  David Acfield

  Funny, Soccer, Air

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• O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Years, Dying, Littles

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• That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Moving, World

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• Writing is thinking in slow motion.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Writing, Thinking

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• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Taught Us, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Football, Hockey, Games

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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