Anime and Manga
Lucoa: In the human world fashions are changing all the time! Something taken from decades ago is already deprecated.
Elma: Decades!? That's as short as a blink!
Lucoa: Their flow of time is different from ours, you know?
Elma: Decades!? That's as short as a blink!
Lucoa: Their flow of time is different from ours, you know?
Films — Live-Action
Volstagg: Is it just me, or does Earth look a little different to you now?
Sif: It has been a thousand years.
Volstagg: Well, changes happen so fast. I mean, you leave for a millennium and look at the state of the place!
Sif: It has been a thousand years.
Volstagg: Well, changes happen so fast. I mean, you leave for a millennium and look at the state of the place!
— Thor, (deleted scene)
"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."
— Alien, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Literature
On the whole, small things don't live a long time. But perhaps they do live fast.
— Truckers
She gnawed at her lip and contemplated 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.
— Ghost Devlin — Devil out of Time: Chapter 8
Live-Action TV
"Haven't you learned after all these years not to view time through conventional eyes?"
— Annorax, Star Trek: Voyager, "Year of Hell"
Music
And how long ago it was now I never can explain
By the clock that's on the tower
Or the one that's in my brain.
By the clock that's on the tower
Or the one that's in my brain.
— Jim's Big Ego, The Ballad of Barry Allen
Tabletop Games
Drekki Flynt: Come on, we go way back, you and me.
Ramarius: Your life, long as it is compared to some, Drekki, is an insect’s buzz to we draconith. I have known you moments.
— "Ghosts of Barak-Minoz," Warhammer: Age of Sigmar
Webcomics
"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."
— Lich, 8-Bit Theater, "He's Back"
Reverend Theo: The margin of error in your guess at your own age is bigger than the age of my whole species.
Vog: Like I said, I am having trouble understanding your perspective.
Vog: Like I said, I am having trouble understanding your perspective.
Western Animation
"You see, for me, time moves backwards and forwards and... oh, why am I bothering? You're fourteen."
Amethyst: We're going to see Mike Krol. He's got that real garage vibe. Songs about being nostalgic for the suburbs.
Pearl: Nostalgic for the suburbs? Pfft. They've only existed for what, 70 years?
Pearl: Nostalgic for the suburbs? Pfft. They've only existed for what, 70 years?
