Stephenie Meyer Quotes

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

I exist only in the past.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.

I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.

I spend a lot of time in the future, But to help the future, sometimes you got to go back to the past, and sometimes you got to stay in the present.

Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.

'Bradshaw's' is a lovely device for the time-travelling television presenter. I just hope that people buying it aren't doing so with the intention of plotting a tour of 21st-century Europe. They'll find quite a lot has changed since 1913.

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

If I could time-travel, I would either go to the '70s and watch the first 'Star Wars' film the day it opened, or to 1880s London, during the Jack the Ripper era, and experience the true grossness of that time.

We started putting '2000' at the end of our name. That was in 1985, and 2000 seemed very futuristic.