Back In Time Quotes - Page 4

• But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Directors, Hawks

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• I traveled into the future to get back in time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Traveled, Get Back

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• Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.

  Dave Barry

  Dad, Teenager, Taken

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• When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Shaving, Lovers, Grows

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• It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering.

  Norman Rush

  Growing Up, Fighting, Magic

  Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books

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• Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

  Tina Turner

  Movie, Stills

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• Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

  Derek Jacobi

  Imagination, Leap Of Faith, Situation

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Roles, Schwarzenegger

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• If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Special, Election, Ifs

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• I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.

  Michel'le

  Situation, Go Back In Time, Asks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.

  Steven Petrow

  Names, Transition, Should

  "Civilities: Steven Petrow answers all your LGBT and straight social dilemmas for the hour". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2016.

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• If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

  C. Thomas Howell

  Done, Stuff, Yeah

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• Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

  Tom Angleberger

  Book, Machines, Time Machine

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• When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.

  Sarah Gadon

  Men, Reality, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

  Ti West

  Violence, Different, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

  Taylor Momsen

  Past, Choices, Want

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• For Bryan [Cranston ] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in public in a melodic and flashy way, was a bit of a risk.

  Jay Roach

  Ideas, Guy, Risk

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Moving, Sea

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind of a big, crazy Back to the Future comedy. So, of course, it's the Civil War - I play the banjo. I was just having a conversation with one of the producers about some of the material and he was like, 'You know, we have to work in a scene where you play the banjo. And I was like I'll get behind that.

  Ed Helms

  Crazy, War, Play

  Source: movies.about.com

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• If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

  Robert Breault

  Carpe Diem, Moments, Ifs

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• You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."

  Elif Batuman

  Taken, Goal, Decision

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.

  Amanda Peet

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Fun, Journey, Golden Days

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• I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

  Tom Freston

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.

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