Time Warp Quotes

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

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.

A million years went by quick.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

moments bleed together, no span to time

If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

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.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

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.

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.