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You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward. -- Snoop Dogg
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. -- Steven Wright
I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos. -- Homer
You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better. -- Leon Brown
I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man. -- Vasco da Gama
What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries. -- Etta James
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day, -- Alexander Payne
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic. -- J. G. Ballard
Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper. -- Gladys Taber
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure. -- Sarah Silverman
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time. -- Eckhart Tolle
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. -- Eric Weiner
I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away. -- Gemma Arterton
A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future. -- Darren Shan
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer. -- Edward Snowden
Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like. -- Mark McGwire
When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some. -- Tina Turner
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. -- Kip Thorne
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. -- Randy Pausch
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast. -- Robert Rodriguez
I traveled into the future to get back in time. -- Marilyn Manson
We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? -- Robert Breault
Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some -- Tina Turner
If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time. -- Gary Gulman
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. -- Frances Mayes
If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen. -- Neil Young
What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up? -- Ruth Ozeki
With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you. -- Taylor Swift
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking. -- Charlie Jane Anders
Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy -- Tom Angleberger
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier. -- Andy Andrews
Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh? -- Julius Schwartz
When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time. -- Steven Petrow
Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time. -- Haley Reinhart
If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. -- James Balog
Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception. -- Jon Hamm
You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that? -- Jeremy Piven
Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life. -- Oliver Sykes
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. -- Derek Jacobi
But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here? -- Cheryl Strayed
I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook. -- Colin Trevorrow
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. -- Andy Kindler
Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair. -- Julianne Hough
One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been. -- Laura Poitras
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity. -- Peter Singer
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day. -- Alexander Payne
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. -- Neil Gaiman
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that. -- Kip Thorne
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States. -- Thomas Woods
I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. -- John Cusack
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. -- Oliver Stone
I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them. -- Shigeru Egami
I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels. -- Olga Kurylenko
Going home means going back in time. It's not a trip you care to take alone, and anyway, isn't that the main reason to take a mate? So you have an ally in the civil war against your parents? -- Diana Joseph
I so wish life also had the option of undo making it easier to deal with things you erred. I would have gone back in time to undo every mistake of mine, for which I have paid a very heavy price. -- Namrata
I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward. -- Malorie Blackman
I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special. -- John Paul DeJoria
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. -- Kevin J. Anderson
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain. -- Richard Stallman
We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely. -- Charles R. Swindoll
As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. -- Tom Waits
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't. -- Octavia E. Butler
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'. -- Stephen Fry
What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning. -- Troy Polamalu
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. -- Thomas Roberts
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." -- David Thorne
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths. -- Phil Cousineau
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time. -- Zeresenay Alemseged
I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk. -- Roberto Duran
I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk -- Roberto Duran
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not going to run for governor. You know what would be better? Arnold should do what he does in the Terminator movies. He should go back in time and prevent Gray Davis from ever being born. That way you wouldn't have the problem. -- Jay Leno
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday. -- Rebecca McNutt
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals. -- John Lewis Gaddis
Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry. -- Bill Maher
You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us. -- Stefan Molyneux
Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people. -- Hans Matheson
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.'' I think 'Vice' is in that category now. -- Tom Freston
Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, "If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been." Then I will remind myself that I cannot. -- John S. Hall
Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived. -- Arthur Gordon Webster
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. -- Sasha Grey
The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer. -- Fred Alan Wolf
When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was. -- Margaret Geller
Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid. -- Josh Hutcherson
Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps. -- Phoebe Philo
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper. -- Taylor Hawkins
Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today. -- Richie Norton
I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter. -- James Lileks
Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves. -- Dave Barry
Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins. -- Alice Steinbach
They rode up the faint marks of the old trace where thousands of sojourners walking and riding both had crossed it and before them the buffalo far back in time. She joined the stream of humanity that had gone down that road, just one more story in a stream of narratives both likely and unlikely that were being told somewhere even now, by someone, in a far place. -- Paulette Jiles
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. -- Natalia Makarova
Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib. -- Zakk Wylde
The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom. -- Benigno Aquino III
7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time. -- Obie Trice
Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can. -- Chad Lowe
It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it. -- Alex Van Halen
The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver. -- Sarah Chalke
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s. -- Peter Criss
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. -- Clint Eastwood
I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate. -- Ryan Lewis
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis. -- Alan Garner
My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal. -- Vanessa Lengies
I never waste time looking back. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we could only turn back time -- Kate Winslet
Isn't it about time you fought back? -- Penelope Douglas
O, call back yesterday, bid time return -- William Shakespeare
I don't have time. Come back after the election. -- Jan Eliasson
Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind. -- Will Smith
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. -- Alan Lightman
I Rushed to get back before it was time. -- Lionel

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