“Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.” — John Masefield Quote

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

I love slow music.

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

I used to think I was stupid and slow.