Quotes about Time Machine

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Votes: 8

Our bodies are the time machine. Votes: 6

I ain't getting on no time machine, Votes: 6

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Votes: 6

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning. Votes: 6

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago. Votes: 6

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. Votes: 6

Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great. Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me. Votes: 6

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. Votes: 6

I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler. Votes: 6

Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie. Votes: 6

Some countries and some people are so primitively religious and so underdeveloped that they don't need a time machine to go back to the past; they are already in there, in the very distant and dark past! Votes: 6

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. Votes: 6

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. Votes: 6

Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space. Votes: 6

I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it . Votes: 6

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF"-then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory. Votes: 6

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie. Votes: 6

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time. Votes: 4

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. Votes: 4

When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you? Votes: 4

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens. Votes: 4

Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha! Votes: 4

Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic. Votes: 4

Books are a time machine. Votes: 3

All this money can't buy me a time machine. Votes: 3

When you look at the stars.. your eyes are time machines Votes: 3

You don't need a time machine to live in the moment. Votes: 3

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine. Votes: 3

I am the time machine of love. Quick, pull my big lever! Votes: 3

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember. Votes: 3

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed Votes: 3

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine. Votes: 3

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there. Votes: 3

I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future. Votes: 3

sometimes music isn't just a bunch of sounds and lyrics, sometimes it's more than that: a time machine... Votes: 3

I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. Votes: 3

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy Votes: 3

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain. Votes: 3

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine. Votes: 3

There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine Votes: 3

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine. Votes: 3

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future. Votes: 3

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams. Votes: 3

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine. Votes: 3

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I've built over a couple of years. I love looking at people's faces when they walk into my office. They're literally astounded. Votes: 3

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you plug into a socket that activates a sound and light show. Votes: 3

CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment. Votes: 3

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination. Votes: 3

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him. Votes: 3

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax. Votes: 3

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.' Votes: 3

Do you know who is ready to go with the presidential campaign? Jeb Bush. Jeb already has plans to end the war in Iraq that his brother started. All he needs is a hot tub time machine. Votes: 3

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible. Votes: 3

Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century. Votes: 3

You never forget where you were when you write a song; it's a very proper memory, so I knew exactly where I was and what I was doing for each track. It was like going into a time machine. Votes: 3

I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid. Votes: 3

If I could have a time machine, where I could go back and tell 12-year-old Melissa that someday John Schneider was going to play her ex-husband, junior high would have been so much easier. I'd have had something to go for. Votes: 3

Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree. Votes: 3

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that. Votes: 3

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time. Votes: 3

I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous. Votes: 3

Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines. Votes: 3

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977. Votes: 3

I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few happily-ever-afters. The real world was more like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, with most of the choices ripped out before you even opened the cover. Votes: 3

If you had managed to persuade my mother not to procreate, I would not exist to send you the plans for constructing your own time machine in which to travel back in time to persuade my mother not to procreate. Apparently, this is known as a pair of ducks." Votes: 3

It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun. Votes: 3

Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.] Votes: 3

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new. Votes: 3

Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. Votes: 3

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine. Votes: 3

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine. Votes: 2

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions. Votes: 2

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux. Votes: 2

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf. Votes: 2

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. Votes: 2

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. Votes: 2

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. Votes: 2

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time. Votes: 2

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly. Votes: 2

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time. Votes: 2

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters. Votes: 2

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body. Votes: 2

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. Votes: 2

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. Votes: 2

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health. Votes: 2

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound. Votes: 2

Next time round Hitler will be a machine. Votes: 0

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time Votes: 0

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles! Votes: 0

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. Votes: 0

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back. Votes: 0

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place. Votes: 0

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers. Votes: 0

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it... Votes: 0

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time. Votes: 0

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. Votes: 0

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again. Votes: 0

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things. Votes: 0

When you treat your time as though you are a machine; a doing machine; you are committing violence against the sacredness of life itself. Votes: 0

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. Votes: 0

If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy. Votes: 0

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. Votes: 0

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was. Votes: 0

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.... Votes: 0

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Votes: 0

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter. Votes: 0

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes. Votes: 0

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly. Votes: 0

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. Votes: 0