Line #47 Quotes/TimeTravel


1	->'''Pearl:''' When I had an awesome day, I could rewind to morning and do it all again. And I've never really liked Tuesdays, so I could just straight up skip Tuesdays. I'd win every turf war by knowing what was gonna happen before it did. I'd splat my enemy, then go back in time and SPLAT THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY TREE!
2	->'''Marina:''' Whoa. Chill, Pearl.
3	->'''Pearl:''' And I guess I could go back and stop bad stuff from happening or whatever.
4	->'''Marina:''' Now we're talking! Like what sort of bad stuff?
5	->'''Pearl:''' Like if I lost a Splatfest, I could just go back in time and pick the other team.
6	->'''Marina:''' ...Classy.
7	-->-- ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''
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9	->'''Ten things you should never touch while time traveling.'''\
10	1. [[ButterflyOfDoom Butterflies]].\
11	2. [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 Lightning bolts]] (this applies to normal traveling as well)\
12	3. [[GrandfatherParadox Relatives]]\
13	4. [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet Your past self]] (you won't go blind, you'll just annihilate all matter in the universe instantly)\
14	5. [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct Hitler]] (I know it's tempting, but it always winds up [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct worse than before]])\
15	6. [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay A T-1000]]\
16	7. The primordial soup from which all life originated (unless your touching the soup [[StableTimeLoop is what triggered life in the first place]]. This is really a judgment call, but if you're wrong, all life ceases to exist. No pressure.)\
17	8. [[ComicBook/XMen Professor Charles Xavier]]\
18	9. Something you thought was a moth but turns out to actually be a butterfly. (Cause seriously, there is NOTHING worse than touching a butterfly when you're time traveling.)\
19	10. Any of my stuff. (Cause I will hunt you down, Rip Hunter style.)
20	-->-- [[http://m-mcgregor.livejournal.com/177540.html Fanfic author M McGregor on LiveJournal]], 2/7/09
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22	->There's no future in time travel.
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24	->Gosh, that takes me back... or forward. That's the trouble with time travel, you can never remember.
25	-->--'''The Fourth Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Androids of Tara"
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27	->I would not want to bet against the possibility of time travel. My opponent might have seen the future and know the answer.
28	-->-- '''Creator/StephenHawking'''
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30	->''"Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you: they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm."''
31	-->-- '''The Prince''', ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''
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33	->Time travel. It's a cornucopia of disturbing concepts.
34	-->-- '''Ron Stoppable''', "''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''"
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36	->Wow, I can remember when all this was buildings...
37	-->--'''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny Maxwell]]'''
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39	->'''The Doctor:''' Oh no. You're not, are you? Tell me you're not archaeologists.
40	->'''River Song:''' Got a problem with archaeologists?
41	->'''The Doctor:''' I'm a time traveler. I point and ''laugh'' at archaeologists.
42	-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "Silence in the Library"
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44	->Now, messing with yourself ''from a previous time travel jaunt'' [[NoodleImplements is about the stupidest thing you can possibly do without a death ray and a bottle of tequila]].
45	-->-- ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' source book
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47	->Why Is It That When The Subject Of Temporal Mechanics Is Broached Your Sparing Human Intellects Instantly Assume The Most Ingratiating Posture Of Surrender Imaginable
48	-->-- '''Kanaya Maryam''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
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50	->Causality is a tool, not a constraint.
51	-->-- '''Captain Holloway''', ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}''
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53	->What do we want?
54	->''Time Travel!''
55	->When do we want it?
56	->''Irrelevant!''
57	-->-- FunTShirt
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59	->The train of time, the Den-Liner. Will its next stop be the past? Or the future?
60	-->--OpeningNarration, ''Series/KamenRiderDenO''
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62	->"It's one thing to control time ... and another thing to lose control of it all. The Kanohi Vahi can only be used in the direst emergency — when there is nothing to lose."
63	-->--Turaga Mata Vakama, ''Makuta's Revenge''
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65	->"The force of time is contained within that Mask. Destroy it, and that power is unleashed upon the universe. Past, present and future all existing at once — warps and rips and hours folding in upon each other — madness and chaos as no two moments ever follow one another ... think of it. [...] Imagine your body trapped between seconds, or half of you aging while the other half regresses. [...] All your plans and schemes would come to an end, because no matter what you attempted, I could walk into the past and undo it. Kill me today, and I will be waiting for you in some tomorrow to avenge my death. Think of it - can you rule a future that is in the past? Or a present that is still a century away? Could you ever be sure of what you've done and what you haven't, when months and years have merged together?"
66	-->--Toa Metru Vakama to Makuta Teridax, ''Time Trap''
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68	->You, of all ages, have so much reason to claw back. So much has been lost.
69	->So feel free to punch your ticket to the past. Go ahead, glance back. Don't sweat it, sweetling. You won't turn to salt and you can't [[TemporalParadox make yourself impossible]]. History will conserve itself. [[InSpiteOfANail The continuities will hold]].
70	->You'll slip back as into a dream, sift through the sands of your collective mind map. The best you can hope for is to wake up, suddenly remember where something was buried.
71	-->-- '''The Buzzing''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
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