Time Travel Quotes - Page 8

• You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.

  William Gibson

  Memories, Childhood, Looks

  Source: craphound.com

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• Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

  Stephen Hawking

  Talking, Crank, Used

  "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

  James Altucher

  Past, Roaming, Pages

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• My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Dad, Poverty

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• Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some cases, buried. Now that time travel is the story itself, it opens up even more doors. So when an actor reads that they're getting killed off on the show, they're basically, like, 'Okay, but should I still bother to show up next week?'

  Damon Lindelof

  Fashion, Character, Doors

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• Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

  Otis Redding

  Travel, Loneliness, Home

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• I think that, if aliens did exist, they would exist at a higher frequency. Being at a higher frequency, you would have to be more evolved than what we consider to be evolved. If there were aliens, I personally believe they would have to resonate at a higher frequency to be able to time travel, or to blink in and out of dimension.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Believe, Thinking, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Father, Past, Grandparent

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.425, A&C Black

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• The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Home, Train Of Thought, Knitting

  "The Time Traveller’s Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

  Jasper Fforde

  Reading, Eggs, Long

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.307, Penguin

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• It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

  Brit Marling

  Fall, Character, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

  Jools Holland

  Thinking, Listening, Playing Music

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• People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

  Steven Moffat

  People, Balls, Viewpoints

  "Doctor Who (Blink)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005–.

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• Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.

  Charles Yu

  People, Broken, Machines

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.164, Vintage

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• Everything that goes around comes around, they say, and although I've never been able to figure out who the mysteriously wise sages known as "they" might be, they're certainly right when it comes to time-travel.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Sage, Might

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.989, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Travel, Vacation, People

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.28, Penguin

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• I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Technology, Discovery, Space

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.92, Basic Books

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• I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

  Julia Sawalha

  Drama, Lucky, Costumes

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• Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

  Ian Frazier

  Taken, Opportunity, Sometimes

  Ian Frazier (2010). “Travels in Siberia”, p.147, Macmillan

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• the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Travel, Gay, Reason

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• For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Real, Nuts, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

  Douglas Adams

  Periods

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• Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically adjust that and change it instead of being haunted by it is a really human thing.

  Rian Johnson

  Memories, Ideas, Able

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Wife, Cry

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