Quotes About Time Machine

#1. ...empires were formed by wars of conquest, but ruled by deception."
The Professor, Hope's great-uncle and the builder of the time-machine.

Eve Human

#2. If it were possible to go back in a time machine and change the stupid things some of us did in grammar school and junior high, Soups old buddy, that gadget would be booked up right into the twenty-third century.

Stephen King

#3. She would have punched him, if she'd had a magical punch-erasing time machine about her person.

Charlotte Stein

#4. I ain't getting on no time machine,

Marvin Barnes

#5. You don't need a time machine to live in the moment.

Carl Henegan

#6. Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine.
Actually I'm finished.
In one afternoon? Wow ... Does it work?
After a fashion.
...
I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#7. 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

#8. The Puget Sound is like a time machine, hiding things and then spewing them back onto its shores at the time and place of its choosing.

Sarah Jio

#9. If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. You have a time machine and you use it for ... watching television?"
"Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could get the hang of the video recorder.

Douglas Adams

#11. When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

Nile Rodgers

#12. 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

#13. Someone had given Georgie a magic phone and all she'd wanted to do with it is stay up late talking to her old boyfriend. If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let someone else kill Hitler.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. Your idea of romance requires a corset and a time machine.

Cath Crowley

#15. I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#16. 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

#17. CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

Bill Watterson

#18. Google is in a sense serving as a time machine, and we're just now being able to measure the effect this has on publishing, advertising, and attention.

Chris Anderson

#19. Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

Debasish Mridha

#20. When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

Dana Gould

#21. Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a couple of years ago. Not human exactly. Human-ish. Close enough that she looked awesome without her shirt on.

Charles Yu

#22. At my house I have a full-size time machine that I've built over a couple of years. I love looking at people's faces when they walk into my office. They're literally astounded.

Gregory Nicotero

#23. A photograph is a kind of time machine.

Nicola Yoon

#24. Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.

Buzz Aldrin

#25. Were you always like this?'
'Like what?'
'A madman. With a time machine.'
'Oh, no. It took ages until I got the time machine.

Neil Gaiman

#26. So if a beautiful alien in a flying saucer invites you into her time machine, step with care. You might fall into one of these trapped repeating histories of only finite duration.

Stephen Hawking

#27. Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

Caryl Rivers

#28. Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'

Tristan Wilds

#29. The Time Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons.

H.G.Wells

#30. When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself.
Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future.

Charles Yu

#31. If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it. narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

Charles Yu

#32. The beautiful thing is, music can be like a time machine. One song- the lyrics, the melody, the mood- can take you back to a moment in time like nothing else can.

Lisa Schroeder

#33. 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

#34. I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

Demetri Martin

#35. If I could have a time machine, where I could go back and tell 12-year-old Melissa that someday John Schneider was going to play her ex-husband, junior high would have been so much easier. I'd have had something to go for.

Melissa Peterman

#36. Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

J.R. Moehringer

#37. That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Ramona Koval

#38. Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Michael Marshall Smith

#39. You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Rodman Philbrick

#40. 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

#41. Going north, he thought, but that was wrong. Not going north. Because it's not a train; it's a time machine. Not north; back. Back in time. He thought he heard the moon mutter.

Stephen King

#42. We're in a time machine, Terence, you and I, right now. It's stuck in one gear and it's slow as hell, but it works. It's bringing us into the future. And I think that future might actually be good. I think it might be okay.

Dexter Palmer

#43. Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world ... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#44. This page is is a time machine, a teleporter, a magic wand. With it you can create a world. Give life. Take it away.

Lisi Harrison

#45. Talking to yourself again, jas?
yes, it beats talking to you.
oh, time machine back to first grade much?
only to visit your brain.

Michele Jaffe

#46. One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Dana Gould

#47. I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.

AnnaMarie Ralph

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

Katy Perry

#49. Rasala had named the two new prototypes Tartis and Gallifrey, after the home planet and time machine of Dr. Who, the protagonist of a science fiction show on public TV.

Tracy Kidder

#50. 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

#51. Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.

Joshua Rogers

#52. Nostalgia [10w]
Nostalgia is a time machine
set to your perfect past.

Beryl Dov

#53. 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

#54. The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

Douglas Coupland

#55. My stomach flips with regret and disappointment. What I wouldn't give for a time machine.

Emma Chase

#56. Sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine ...

Alina Radoi

#57. 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

#58. The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

Philip Zaleski

#59. I hope your plan involves a time machine so you can go back and kill baby Caroline - and baby Hitler too, I suppose, if there's time.

R.S. Grey

#60. I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

Questlove

#61. 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

#62. Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.

Terry Teachout

#63. My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more time. He spent all the time he had with us thinking about how he wished he had more time, if he could only have more time.

Charles Yu

#64. You are my future, Kacie. You're my present and my future and if I could figure out a way to invent a damn time machine, you'd be my past.

Beth Ehemann

#65. Remembering is just an invention of the mind ... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not ... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.

Rodman Philbrick

#66. If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Stephen Hawking

#67. 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

#68. I take out my book, glad to have a few minutes to study the diagram on time travel and string theory. But before I can build a time machine out of strings, I need to figure out what the heck they are talking about.

Wendy Mass

#69. You're going to, what, just walk down to Best Buy and get a time machine off the rack?

Charlie Jane Anders

#70. 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

#71. Let's just wait and see if I like the girls they marry," she said. "So, that means your dress is new, and the necklace is old and blue. What can you borrow?" "A time machine

Molly Harper

#72. Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

James Nicoll

#73. I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.

Samantha Hunt

#74. Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

Beau Mirchoff

#75. 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

#76. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

Terry Pratchett

#77. One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

James Callis

#78. Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world....... your imagi-nation!

Mike Thaler

#79. 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

#80. Spider-Man: "Why'd it have to be Logan? If it had been Reed or Tony we would've already built a time machine out of bamboo and palm fronds by now and been on our way.

Jason Aaron

#81. If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Mo Rocca

#82. I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show.

Anne Waldman

#83. Now, where did I leave my time-machine? Oh I know, next Wednesday.

Hugh Laurie

#84. Books are a time machine.

Jonathan Nolan

#85. I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

Victor Webster

#86. 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

#87. My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.

Munia Khan

#88. Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.

Dinesh D'Souza

#89. 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

#90. I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .

Dean Israelite

#91. There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine

Pushpa Rana

#92. I always thought the time machine is the device that's missed most. Without even saying it out loud, that's the thing people want the most: The ability to take whatever it is that went wrong and fix it.

Chuck Klosterman

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

Alex Riley

#94. 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

#95. Time machine ... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back ... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

Dane Cook

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

Caroline Lawrence

#97. Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Steve Erickson

#98. In Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound". It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

Don Draper

#99. Among the many who fruitlessly attempted thoughout history to create a time machine, one individual actually succeeded. He was surprisingly not a human.

Benson Grayson

#100. Our bodies are the time machine.

Rudy Rucker