Keep out of Chancery. ordsprog

en Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
  Charles Dickens

en There were bees in the bush and she didn't want to get stung. I can't say she would have or she wouldn't have. Some people get a nervous reaction. There were a number of bees.

en Drought is a slow-motion disaster - it's a slow and creeping death for plant and animal life and potentially for the agricultural industry. Each day without rainfall deepens the crisis for the farm and ranch families of Texas.

en Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

en It was basically slow, slow, slow then hit the hammer. It was very tactical today.

en The decorative designs at intersections has been known to slow people down. When everything looks the same, people slow down. Widening the sidewalks a couple of inches will narrow the roadway and that's a proven way to slow drivers down.

en When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
  Joseph Joubert

en I?d heard it was kind of hilly, so I thought I?d take it slow at the start. It was a slow start. It was too slow, so I took the lead.

en Oh sure, speed wins. If you can run fast, then you can do things that you can't do if you're slow. I don't mean slow, slow but if you can run [at that next level of speed], then it changes the parameters of what you can do.

en It occurred to me that instead of trying to make faster electronics, I should slow down time. If a signal reached an instrument at the speed of light but at that point was converted into a very slow signal, then light would indeed slow down and a conventional electronic timer could measure it.

en It's really death by incarceration. You're really putting someone to a slow, psychological death, and I think that is really cruel and unusual punishment.

en It?s mostly a creeping fire. A slow-burning, not-very-hot fire, but I?m sure there are trees that are being scorched as well.

en If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes - even then, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name?

en He had us make some toast points, and he told us to crush the (slow-roasted) garlic out of its skin and spread it on the toast along with the chicken. Roasting tamed the garlic and gave it a lovely taste. It was absolutely delicious.
  Julia Child

en A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity The pe𝑥y quality he possessed was less about physical appeal and more about inner magnetism. A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity


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