Time Capsules Quotes

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.

Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

When I listen to little fourth-dimension artifacts, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that when you're writing the song and recording the song, you're already sending a message to the future listener, whoever and wherever and whenever that will be.