#slow process

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#behind #crawl #edifice #his #i

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#because #become #everything #expect #friends

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #because #changes #code #complexity

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #cannot #desire #i #i am

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required. ↗

— Bowie Kuhn

#called #i #i think #patience #patients

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction. ↗

— Rob Reiner

#direction #forward #i #process #right

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#hypothesis #matter #may #probably #process

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#anywhere #away #because #been #buy