Back In Time Quotes

• I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

  Homer

  Zoos, Gone, Dinosaurs

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• I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

  Gemma Arterton

  Party, Wish, London

  "Gemma Arterton Falls for The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" by Jami Philbrick, movieweb.com. May 15, 2010.

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Mistake, Knowing Better

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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

  Harvey Mackay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Jan 28, 2013

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  I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Food, Coffee

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• Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

  Eric Weiner

  Travel, Decision, Return

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.144, Random House

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• I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

  Andy Kindler

  Perfect, Machines, Aces

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• If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.

  Haley Reinhart

  Different, Influence, Ifs

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• I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

  Tate Taylor

  Go Back In Time, Movie Sets, Only Time

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

  Kip Thorne

  Years, Law, Understanding

  "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

  Alexander Payne

  Falling In Love, Forgotten, Go Back In Time

  "The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life Of Alexander Payne". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. February 24, 2012.

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• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  Oliver Stone

  Iran, Cameras, India

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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

  John S. Hall

  Regret, Mistake, Past

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Determination, Regret, Moving

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• What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, What If, Wake Up

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he'd like if he could have anything, he'd probably say he wanted a horse that was twice as strong and ate half as many oats. He would not say he wanted a tractor. The point is, technology changes things so fast that many people aren't sure what the best solutions to their problems might be.

  Philip Quigley

  Change, Strong, Horse

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• Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

  Julianne Hough

  Hair, Giving, Causes

  "Talking About Hair-Metal with Julianne Hough". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Character, Years, Play

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• Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

  Sarah Silverman

  Artist, Smell, Brilliant

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• I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk

  Roberto Duran

  Thinking, Names, Laughing

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• You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Decision, Government Spying

  "The Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, mic.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Names, People

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