The Time Traveller Quotes

#1. And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated.

H.G.Wells

#2. Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

William Gibson

#3. All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

#4. I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona.

Stephen King

#5. The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

H.G.Wells

#6. It's about having an active lifestyle, staying healthy, and making the right decisions. Life is about balance. Not everybody wants to run a marathon, but we could all start working out and being active, whether you walk to work or take an extra flight of stairs.

Apolo Ohno

#7. Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Nobody looks better than when they are helping someone else.

Kevin Kling

#9. Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.

Alastair Reynolds

#10. He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Time means nothing."
~The Time Traveller's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

#12. Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

Epictetus

#13. The person who values community will oft be deceived and destroyed by the knave whose heart lies in selfish ambitions. For

R.A. Salvatore

#14. Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and - Duration.

H.G.Wells

#15. It was a kind love, a selfless love. I was an explorer and you were a traveller. We met at crossroads. I saw love in your smile and I recognized in for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I'm already home.

Lang Leav

#16. What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions?

Ricci-Jane Adams

#17. Why not?' said the Time Traveller.

H.G.Wells

#18. 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

#19. It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller

H.G.Wells

#20. To the traditional traveller - let alone travel writer - this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a place, to get under its skin. How can one possibly appreciate what makes a city or a country tick in a bare ten hours

Hugh Thomson

#21. But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him.

H.G.Wells

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

Julia Sawalha

#23. You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Paul Theroux

#24. It's against reason," said Filby.
"What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

H.G.Wells

#25. For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Aldous Huxley

#26. I am a traveller in both time and space, to be where I have been.

Linus Caldwell

#27. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

H.G.Wells