Slow Motion Quotations | Page 2

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

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

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

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.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

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

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.