Jack Finney Quotes

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?

When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Once upon a time is now.