time discrepancy Quotes

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

There were two hours that couldn't be accounted for.

No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened.

It's psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you're trying to depict. You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.