Geographically Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together adding to it shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final it seems but must always be undergoing modification.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ which we believe sets us right with God the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

Now we occupy a lowly position both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere and the Almighty is Most High not in space but with respect to absolute existence greatness and power.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and blood and tears.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing singing drinking dancing making love holding the streets picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Each word bears its weight so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies you know.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

In December 1998 I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship one that had grown more slowly than I had wished but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs customs and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries elements difficult at times to justify by logic but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere since they open up for man his inner distance.

When you're young you want to make every kind of film: musicals Westerns horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.