Time Mismatch Quotes

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

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

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

Year's end still in straw hat and sandals

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.