Time Quotes
These quotes are, uh, timeless.
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Time Quotes
In the immortal words of Ke$ha, tik tok. Click on any time quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"'Cause you're hot then you're cold…"Source: "Hot N Cold" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"Source: Jeremiah 29:10-14 | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah
"A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face."Source: Pinocchio | Speaker: The Blue Fairy
"Allons-y!"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"But it does move."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Galileo Galilei
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."Source: February 5, 2008 Speech | Speaker: Barack Obama
"Come up and see me sometime."Source: She Done Him Wrong | Speaker: Lady Lou
"Face it, girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."Source: Fried Green Tomatoes | Speaker: Evelyn Couch
"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year?"Source: Seasons of Love | Speaker: Cast of Rent
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison
"I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."Source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Speaker: Lorelei Lee
"I believe it is peace for our time."Source: Speech outside 10 Downing Street | Speaker: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Author: Lewis Carroll
"I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."Source: A Place in the Sun | Speaker: George Eastman
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass
"I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine."Source: I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | Author: Douglas Adams
"I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will."Source: "Crocodile Rock" | Speaker: Elton John
"I'll be back."Source: The Terminator | Speaker: The Terminator
"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time."Source: Broadcast News | Speaker: Aaron Altman
"I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away."Source: Hud | Speaker: Hud Bannon
"I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away."Source: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | Speaker: Otis Redding
"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends."Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: Spice Girls
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime
"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."Source: Art exhibit at the Moderna Museet | Author: Andy Warhol
"It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."Source: Shanghai Express | Speaker: Shanghai Lily
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"It was a dark and stormy night."Source: Paul Clifford | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"It's October 3rd."Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Cady Heron
"It's showtime, folks!"Source: All That Jazz | Speaker: Joe Gideon
"It's the end of the world as we know it"Source: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" | Speaker: R.E.M.
"It's this century. It still does perplex me so."Source: American Horror Story: Coven | Speaker: Delphine LaLaurie
"Just keep swimming."Source: Finding Nemo | Speaker: Dory
"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's go someplace like Bolivia."Source: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Speaker: Butch Cassidy
"Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."Source: Shaun of the Dead | Speaker: Shaun
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."Source: Airplane! | Speaker: Steven McCroskey
"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."Source: David Copperfield | Author: Charles Dickens
"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley
"Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half."Source: Ninotchka | Speaker: Count Leon d'Algout
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle
"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington
"One, two, Freddy's coming for you..."Source: A Nightmare on Elm Street | Speaker: Creepy children
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."Source: Back to the Future | Speaker: Dr. Emmett Brown
"See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."Source: The Gospel of Matthew | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth
"Shall we play a game?"Source: WarGames | Speaker: WOPR/Joshua
"So, goodbye, yellow brick road."Source: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | Speaker: Elton John
"Someday monkey won't play piano song, play piano song."Source: "Michelle" | Speaker: The Beatles
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson
"The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."Source: Oh, God! | Speaker: God
"The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."Source: On Golden Pond | Speaker: Ethel Thayer
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."Source: What is Called Thinking? | Author: Martin Heidegger
"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle."Source: The Court Jester | Speaker: Hubert Hawkins
"There are simply too many notes."Source: Amadeus | Speaker: Emperor Joseph II
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"This is Halloween!"Source: This Is Halloween | Speaker: Citizens of Halloween Town
"This place is like somebody's memory of a town."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."Source: Reason in Common Sense | Author: George Santayana
"Time is a flat circle."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle
"We can't go on together with suspicious minds."Source: "Suspicious Minds" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."Source: "Wish You Were Here" | Speaker: Pink Floyd
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."Source: Harvey | Speaker: Elwood P. Dowd
"What an excellent day for an exorcism."Source: The Exorcist | Speaker: Pazuzu-Regan
"When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory, too."Source: Cats (1981 Musical) | Speaker: Grizabella
"Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad."Source: Let's Stay Together | Speaker: Al Green
"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."Source: "Yesterday" | Speaker: The Beatles
"You ain't nothing but a hound dog, crying all the time."Source: "Hound Dog" | Speaker: Elvis Presley
"You lived your life like a candle in the wind."Source: "Candle in the Wind" | Speaker: Elton John
