Temporal Control Quotes

The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'

Only time conquers time and its burdens.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Capital creates space-time.

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.

I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" "Perhaps not," Alice cautiously replied; "but I know I have to beat time when I listen to music." "Ah! That accounts for it," said the Hatter. "He won't stand a beating. Now, if only you kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you like with the clock.

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.

I wish I could Buy Time - just write a cheque, and a few days later a brown cardboard box would arrive at the door containing three months (along with an extra bonus sunny weekend for being a good customer).

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

Time hath a taming hand.