Quotes About Back In Time

#1. We - can't go back in time and change anything. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather before you were born, then you wouldn't be able to go back in time to kill your grandfather.

Rick Yancey

#2. 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

#3. Culture becomes visible when we travel between " cultures " and when we look back in time to other " cultures " than our own.

Michael Ryan

#4. The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.

Thomas Woods

#5. Isn't that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn't know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it's bigger than any one man.

Dexter Palmer

#6. People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

Octavia E. Butler

#7. I'm willing to do almost anything for you. I'd go back in time to change things if I could." He gazes down at me with determination. "But I'm not leaving you alone.

Erin Watt

#8. In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

Taylor Hawkins

#9. Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

Charlie Jane Anders

#10. Going home means going back in time. It's not a trip you care to take alone, and anyway, isn't that the main reason to take a mate? So you have an ally in the civil war against your parents?

Diana Joseph

#11. You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Jeremy Piven

#12. Seriously. Let. Go. Of. The. Car."
He let go of the car and said, "Suit yourself."
"It would suit me if I could travel back in time and not click 'book now' on that stupid webpage

Kristen Ashley

#13. Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Randy Pausch

#14. We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook.

Colin Trevorrow

#16. I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.

Dara Horn

#17. I so wish life also had the option of undo making it easier to deal with things you erred. I would have gone back in time to undo every mistake of mine, for which I have paid a very heavy price.

Namrata

#18. If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.

Gary Gulman

#19. College girls on the road! One-night stands! Lee felt like an Austro-Hungarian emperor attended on his deathbed by flappers. He felt them stealing his life - literally going back in time and taking, through their incoherent lifestyles, the little he had struggled so hard to attain.

Nell Zink

#20. 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

#21. When you look out in space, you're looking back into time. The farther across space you look, the further back in time you see. This means the telescopes and instruments we use to study the cosmos are really time machines.

Carolyn Collins Petersen

#22. 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

#23. The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.

James Vance

#24. Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

Gladys Taber

#25. 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

#26. I think if you could go back in time in one dimension, you could go back in another. That would make more sense. Well, said Nickelo, I guess it's unfortunate the Creator didn't discuss things with you first before he set the laws of the universe. That's a pity. Not funny, Richard said.

Rodney W. Hartman

#27. The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You know what would be better? Arnold should do what he does in the Terminator movies. He should go back in time and prevent Gray Davis from ever being born. That way you wouldn't have the problem.

Jay Leno

#28. I hate phones," he grumbled into her neck. "Seriously, I wanna go back in time and murder Alexander Graham Bell." He sat up with a groan. "Or was it Edison who invented the phone? I can never remember."
She had to laugh. "I'm pretty sure it was Bell.

Elle Kennedy

#29. 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

#30. If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

Anna Staniszewski

#31. In that moment when she lay in her bed with her eyes closed tightly against the onslaught of the day, she realized she wanted him more than she wanted to go back in time. More than she wanted to see. More than she wanted to dance.

Vanessa North

#32. Somehow I've traveled back in time to my third-grade playground days. Unless there's another explanation for why Garrett is goading me into kissing him.

Elle Kennedy

#33. The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

Gail Collins

#34. I love stepping back in time

Frances McCarthy

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

Sammy Davis Jr.

#36. Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Frances Mayes

#37. If so, we might be able to use them for rapid travel around the galaxy or travel back in time. Of course, we have not seen anyone from the future (or have we?) but I discuss a possible explanation for this.

Stephen Hawking

#38. Will there ever be a time when I won't wish to go back in time and put everything right? - Lilianna Gregor

H.R. Willaston

#39. If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Peter Singer

#40. Mr. Poe couldn't think of anything else to say that might have comforted the Baudelaire orphans, but I wish now that I had the power to go back in time and speak to these three sobbing children.

Lemony Snicket

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

Homer

#42. Tesla might not have invented a machine for going back in time, but Griffin thought he'd just found a way to stop it.

Kady Cross

#43. 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

#44. I would read anything. Absolutely anything. I loved being transported somewhere else, even back in time.

Samantha Young

#45. Have to get to Shoreless Isle? You'll have to go back in time from there, right?

Brandon Mull

#46. You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.

David Hayter

#47. You cannot go back in time, even if you wish it with every fiber of your being, your heart and soul, even if you think about it every day. Trust me. I know.

Pleasefindthis

#48. But I wasn't back in time. I was now.

Jodi Meadows

#49. I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

Suzanne Finnamore

#50. Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?

Julius Schwartz

#51. 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

#52. Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.

Phil Cousineau

#53. Mostly though, Rubes, I want to go back in time and beat every single person's ass who's ever made you doubt yourself, because the girl who makes me smile 'til my face hurts even on a shit day needs to see that in herself. I feel like I owe it to you." Aaron

Mariana Zapata

#54. If Uncle Monty had known known what bad luck was soon to come, he wouldn't have wasted a moment thinking about Gustav. I wish - and I'm sure you wish as well - we could go back in time and warn him, but we can't, and that's that.

Lemony Snicket

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

Steven Wright

#56. I didn't want him to move on. I wanted to go backwards, back in time and hug him. Never let him go.

Penelope Ward

#57. The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "Satisfaction" and am instantly back in time. It doesn't matter where I am, suddenly I'm walking through the woods, I'm in my best friend's room ...

Alice Hoffman

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

Tina Turner

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

Ruth Ozeki

#60. I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Malorie Blackman

#61. In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

Richard Stallman

#62. We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

Natalie Cole

#63. We have a nasty habit of flushing down the memory hole "the people who lost." Or demonizing them. Going back in time and painting Snidely Whiplash mustaches on their luckless countenances.

Bill Kauffman

#64. 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

#65. Case turned back, in time to catch the briefest flash of a black rose, its petals sheened like leather, the black stem thorned with bright chrome.

William Gibson

#66. When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him with one.

Marc Rainer

#67. As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits

#68. I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.

J.G. Ballard

#69. I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

Thomas Roberts

#70. Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

Kip Thorne

#71. Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events.

Molly Friedenfeld

#72. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

#73. But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

Cheryl Strayed

#74. I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

Felix J. Palma

#75. With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#76. Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

Robert B. Cialdini

#77. I have not gone forward or back in time, but across in time, to something I might have been, playing itself out.

Jeanette Winterson

#78. I traveled into the future to get back in time.

Marilyn Manson

#79. I shouldn't have looked. If I could go back in time, I would have. I had no idea that one look would devastate me. Weeks from now I would regret that one look, for one reason and one reason only. His eyes held my ruin.

Rachel Van Dyken

#80. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 21 y/o self? Answer: Think about your actions. They have consequences.

Claire Contreras

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. Hi," he says.

Just hearing that one word makes me feel as though I have gone back in time, to a part of my life when things made sense, when the world was fair.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#84. People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

Andy Andrews

#85. Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

Taylor Swift

#86. If I could go back in time to when I was 18yrs old, I would take better notes this time, because back then I knew everything.

Michael Nuccio

#87. Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

Oliver Sykes

#88. It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.

Tom Perrotta

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack

#92. He's like the kid they use down in Louisiana as alligator bait. They tie him to the end of a rope and he walks out into the swamp. All the kid can do is hope they jerk the rope back in time.

Michael Levine

#93. There is no way you can go back in time and protect your earlier selves

Srividya Srinivasan

#94. I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!

A.A. Bell

#95. I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.

Megan McCafferty

#96. What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like ... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

Troy Polamalu

#97. White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power.

Helen Macdonald

#98. 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

#99. It can't possibly be a bad idea if my future self hasn't traveled back in time to stop me." Eva's

Alanea Alder

#100. I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

Zeresenay Alemseged