1 | [[AC:Anime and Manga]] |
2 | ->'''Lucoa:''' In the human world fashions are changing all the time! Something taken from decades ago is already deprecated. \ |
3 | '''Elma:''' Decades!? That's as short as a blink!\ |
4 | '''Lucoa:''' Their flow of time is different from ours, you know? |
5 | -->-- ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's OL Diary]]'' |
6 | |
7 | [[AC: Fanfiction]] |
8 | -> '''Optimus:''' Adam, where are the rest of the White Fang? |
9 | -> '''Adam:''' On leave. Nothing's happening right now, and we're not criminals anymore, so why not? Five years is a long time to go without a break. |
10 | -> '''Optimus:''' I'll have to remember that the next time I'm stationed at an outpost for five hundred thousand years. |
11 | -> '''Adam:''' (''Wincing'') Sorry. |
12 | -> '''Optimus:''' Don't be. It was a good time, or as good a time as any in this war. And I suspect our perspectives on time are a little... different. |
13 | -->-- ''Fanfic/SparkToSparkDustToDust'' |
14 | |
15 | [[AC:Films -- Live-Action]] |
16 | ->'''Volstagg:''' Is it just me, or does Earth look a little different to you now?\ |
17 | '''Sif:''' It has been a thousand years.\ |
18 | '''Volstagg:''' Well, changes happen so fast. I mean, you leave for a millennium and look at the state of the place! |
19 | -->-- ''Film/{{Thor}}'', (deleted scene) |
20 | |
21 | ->''"We operate in a very different time reference. You might say all this is happening between the ticks of your watch or the beats of your heart."'' |
22 | -->-- '''Alien''', ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' |
23 | |
24 | [[AC:Literature]] |
25 | ->On the whole, small things don't live a long time. But perhaps they do live ''fast''. |
26 | -->-- ''[[Literature/NomesTrilogy Truckers]]'' |
27 | |
28 | ->She gnawed at her lip and contemplated [[MayflyDecemberRomance the chasm]] between eight hundred years and twenty-six. How young did she seem? How small was the whole of her life? It was no wonder he seemed crazy. |
29 | -->-- ''Ghost Devlin -- Devil out of Time'': [[https://kittyunpretty.com/coatimundi-chapter-eight/ Chapter 8]] |
30 | |
31 | [[AC:Live-Action TV]] |
32 | ->''"Haven't you learned after all these years not to view time through conventional eyes?"'' |
33 | -->-- '''Annorax''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell Year of Hell]]" |
34 | |
35 | [[AC:Music]] |
36 | ->''And how long ago it was now I never can explain\ |
37 | By the clock that's on the tower\ |
38 | Or the one that's in my brain.'' |
39 | -->-- '''Jim's Big Ego''', ''The Ballad of [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen]]'' |
40 | |
41 | [[AC:Tabletop Games]] |
42 | ->'''[[LoveableRogue Drekki Flynt]]:''' Come on, we go way back, you and me. |
43 | -> '''Ramarius:''' Your life, long as it is compared to some, Drekki, is an insect’s buzz to we [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconith]]. I have known you moments. |
44 | -->-- "Ghosts of Barak-Minoz," ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' |
45 | |
46 | [[AC:Webcomics]] |
47 | ->''"So typically mortal. You never look to the long term. You build your cities right where glaciers will come screaming through in 200,000 years."'' |
48 | -->-- '''Lich''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', [[https://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/03/18/episode-396-hes-back/ "He's Back"]] |
49 | |
50 | ->'''Reverend Theo:''' The margin of error in your guess at your own age is [[TimeAbyss bigger than the age of my whole species]].\ |
51 | '''Vog:''' Like I said, I am having trouble understanding your perspective. |
52 | -->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' |
53 | |
54 | [[AC:Western Animation]] |
55 | ->''"You see, for me, time moves backwards and forwards and... oh, why am I bothering? You're fourteen."'' |
56 | -->-- '''[[TimeMaster Clockwork]]''', ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' |
57 | |
58 | ->'''Amethyst:''' We're going to see Mike Krol. He's got that real garage vibe. Songs about being nostalgic for the suburbs.\ |
59 | '''Pearl:''' [[{{Hipster}} Nostalgic for the suburbs? Pfft. They've only existed for what, 70 years?]] |
60 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E6LastOneOutOfBeachCity Last One Out of Beach City]]" |
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