#lowly

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#calming #composer #desire #down #energy

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#alone #being #boil #coffee #does

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#date #even #gay #into #other

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

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #characteristics #evolution #our #promoted

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. ↗

— John Edward Christopher Hill

#extended #freedom #late #men #only

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#case #day #doing #fewer #fortunately

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years. ↗

— David Hockney

#actually #began #cameras #going #i

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#i #long #long time #material #move

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#artists #detest #i #other #otherwise