Time Machine Quotes - Page 2

• Books are a time machine.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Book, Machines

  "Interstellar Writer Jonathan Nolan Gives Us the Scoop on Deep Spoilers!". Interview with Roth Cornet, www.ign.com. November 8, 2014.

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• Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.

  Demetri Martin

  Home, Machines, Speed

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• If the universe is a non-spatial computer, a 'time machine' is a program that allows a user to have the same (ontologically non-spatial) feelings or experiences that occurred or s/he merely feels to have occurred in the past, with an in-built function to have different feelings or experiences than those of the past, and thus creating a possibility to change the past or to rewrite history in a pseudo sense.

  Kedar Joshi

  Past, Creating, Feelings

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• I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

  Jeff Mangum

  Dream, Moving, Night

  "Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Mike McGonigal, pitchfork.com. December 21, 1997.

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• You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are transported! You're not just shown pictures, not even 3-D pictures, not even movies, but suddenly you are transported live by a time machine to that very time, that very age and you see it happen, you watch it happen, you hear it happen, you feel it happen! Think of it! Not only the movies but the 'feelies'! You are there!

  David Berg

  Thinking, Age, Watches

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• I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Machines, Woods, Chance

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, May, Able

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

  Minor White

  Dream, Eye, Space

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• When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

  Haruki Murakami

  Birthday, Writing, Remembers Everything

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• I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

  Alex Riley

  Wwe, Machines, Planes

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• What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Machines, Way

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.235, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Kids

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• For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Machines, Who We Are, Being Human

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• I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Writing, Rome, Machines

  "Top writing tips: Caroline Lawrence" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine.

  Dido Armstrong

  Song, Memories, Writing

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Self

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• Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war in Iraq that his brother started. All he needs is a hot tub time machine.

  David Letterman

  Brother, War, Iraq

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• Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

  Charles Yu

  Memories, Regret, Taken

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.34, Vintage

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• All this money can't buy me a time machine.

  Katy Perry

  Machines

  Song: The One That Got Away, Album: Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, 2011

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• When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?

  Dana Gould

  Girl, Kings, Fun

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• Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Religious, Dark

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• I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Reading, First Love, Would Be

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• And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

  H. G. Wells

  Gratitude, Flower, Heart

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few happily-ever-afters. The real world was more like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, with most of the choices ripped out before you even opened the cover.

  Rachel Vincent

  Real, Book, Adventure

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• Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

  H. G. Wells

  Needs, Outcomes, Premium

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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