The Time Machine quotes

29 total quotes

Alexander Hartdegen
Über-Morlock
Main cast
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View Quote We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back... are memories. Those that carry us forward... are dreams.

View Quote Phillby: Nothing can change what happened.
Hartdegen: No, you're wrong. Because I will change it.

View Quote I could come back a thousand times... and see her die a thousand ways.

View Quote You were right, Phillby. We did go too far.

View Quote You're forgetting one thing. What if?

View Quote Come a little closer, I don't bite.

View Quote You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed, so how could you use your time machine to go back and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the escapable result of you.

View Quote You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories. Your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two terrible words, "What if?".

View Quote Who are you, to question 800,000 years... of evolution?

View Quote Teacher: If you do that again, I will re-sequence your DNA.

View Quote Phillby: I'm glad he's gone. Maybe he's finally found a place where he can be happy.

View Quote Phillby: A professor from Columbia University should not be corresponding with a crazy German book keeper.
Hartdegen: He's a patent clerk, not a book keeper, and I think Mister Einstein needs all the support I can give him.

View Quote Phillby: [looking at a futuristic picture] I wonder if we'll ever go too far.
Hartdegen: With what?
Phillby: [pointing at the picture] With this. With all of this.
Hartdegen: No such thing.

View Quote Jogger: Hey.
Hartdegen: Hello.
Jogger: Nice suit. Very retro.
Hartdegen: Thank you.
Jogger: Bet that makes a hell of a cappuccino. That thing.

View Quote Vox: [an image of himself appears] How may I help you?
[Alexander Hartdegen looks behind Vox]
Vox: Over here.