Time quotes

“- Matthew Trant: She's getting too big to be running around wild as a jack rabbit.
- Abigail Trant: It used to be she was too little, and now she's too big. I guess she passed up just right when nobody was lookin'.”

Sam Waterston - Matthew Trant
Tess Harper - Abigail Trant

“There are a lot of ways you can kill a person. There are fast ways and there are slow ways. Chester was killin' me the slow way, for thirteen years.”
Melanie Griffith - Lucille

“- Q: It looks like a watch, but it's really a laser. It keeps perfect time.
- James Bond: But, for how long?
- Q: At least your lifetime.”
Alec McCowen - Q
Sir Sean Connery - James Bond

“Good to see you. Fifteen years. Hasn't changed a bit.”

James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan

“It's a science experiment! Stop the train just before you hit the switch track up ahead!”
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown

“- Picard: I wish I could spare a few centuries to learn.
- Anij: It took us centuries to learn that it doesn't have to take centuries to learn.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Donna Murphy - Anij

“Ten years, plus two for having pleaded not guilty, making thirteen years in all.”

Peter Alexander Ustinov - Horace

“- John Gustafson: This milk has chunks in it.
- Max Goldman: What's your point?”
Jack Lemmon - John Gustafson
Walter Matthau - Max Goldman

“I once read that there are two kinds of time: mechanical and human. You could say my story began at 8:59 the day I started that job, and ended months later, when I left it. But I'd tell you it began in the past, with my old self; and ended in the future, the new one.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“Traveling through time has become much too painful.”
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown

“- Nurse Tate: I'll get the lubricant...
- Dr. Paulson: There's no time for lubricant!
- Harry: There's always time for lubricant!”

Wendy Braun - Nurse Tate
Wayne Duvall - Dr. Paulson
Orlando Jones - Harry

“This is never going to heal!”

Steve Martin - Rigby Reardon

“- Rocky Sullivan: Say, you turned out to be a pretty snappy-looking dish.
- Laury Martin: Thanks.
- Rocky Sullivan: For a sociable worker.
- Laury Martin: Thanks again.”
James Cagney - Rocky Sullivan

“I have no intention of taking a job. My work is going far too well - I can't afford to waste time earning money.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arthur Rimbaud

“- Big Mama: Tod, that Copper is going to come back a hunting dog, a real killer.
- Young Tod: Oh no, not my friend Copper. He won't ever change.
- Big Mama: I hope you're right.
- Young Tod: And we'll keep on being friends forever. Right, Big Mama?
- Big Mama: Darling, forever is a long, long time, and time has a way of changing things.”
Pearl Bailey - Big Mama
Keith Coogan - Young Tod

“- Artemus Gordon: The collars around our necks! They contain powerful magnets! As long as we can outrun the blades, we'll be fine!
- James West: Gordon! How long does it take for a magnet to lose its power?
- Artemus Gordon: About four hundred years!”

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon
Will Smith - James West

“- Captain Clarence Oveur: I mean I'm just not sure.
- Dr. Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
- Captain Clarence Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
- Dr. Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?”

Peter Graves - Captain Clarence Oveur
Leslie William Nielsen - Dr. Rumack

“- Marty McFly: Where are we? When are we?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: We're descending toward Hill Valley, California, at 4:29 pm, on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015.
- Marty McFly: 2015? You mean we're in the future?
- Jennifer: Future? Marty, what do you mean? How can we be in the future?
- Marty McFly: Uh, Jennifer, um, I don't know how to tell you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown
Elisabeth Shue - Jennifer

“- Weps: Well, we don't know that for sure that's the whole point. That is why he needs time to confirm the message.
- Zimmer: That's the whole fuckin' point is that we don't got time! Radchenko is fueling his birds and why do you think he's doing that? Huh? Why? Because you don't put on a condom until you're gonna fuck!”
Viggo Mortensen - Weps
Matt Craven - Zimmer

“- Colonel Allen Faulkner: All right. You've got the job.
- Arthur Witty: Do I have time to get a divorce?
- Colonel Allen Faulkner: Thirty-six hours.”
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner
Kenneth Griffith - Arthur Witty

Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically “Do you wanna, you know, be one with eternity, do you want to be in heaven?” And, we're all saying “No thank you, not just yet”. And so time is actually just this constant saying “No” to... (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Linklater - Pinball Playing Man

“- Diane Lightson: How long have you been divorced?
- Chris Thorne: Four years.
- Diane Lightson: Do you still love her?
- Chris Thorne: Nah, been over her for... weeks.”
Demi Moore - Diane Lightson
Chevy Chase - Chris Thorne

“- Joe Fabrini: Do you believe in love at first sight?
- Cassie Hartley: It saves a lot of time.”
George Raft - Joe Fabrini
Ann Sheridan - Cassie Hartley

“- Linda: Sebastian, do you have any idea what time it is?
- Sebastian: Da Vinci never slept. Said it was a waste of time.”
Elisabeth Shue - Linda McKay
Kevin Bacon - Sebastian Caine

“Sylvie had no awareness of time. For her, hours and minutes were the names of trains.”
Sara Walker - Ruth