Timeline (2003) quotes

10 total quotes

Chris – Paul Walker
Doniger – David Thewlis
Kate – Frances O'Connor
Lord Oliver – Michael Sheen
Marek – Gerard Butler

View Quote Doniger: [takes Francois' glasses] Sorry Francois. They didn't have these.
Francois: You know, I don't see too well without them.
Doniger: I'm sure you'll be fine. That's where we goofed up with the professor.

View Quote Doniger: Yeah, yeah, look. We need cultural experts, not scientists. My people simply don't know about the medieval world, or how to mingle with the locals, which is what we're gonna have to do, if we're going to find the professor and bring him back.
Marek: So that's it? We just step on that machine and whiz back to 1357?

View Quote Lord Oliver: Who speaks for you?
Marek: I do, my lord.
Lord Oliver: You speak strangely.
Marek: Yes. We are Scottish, my lord.
Lord Oliver: Scottish? (in Scottish accent) You've come to kill us all in our beds, eh? (goes back to original English accent) First the old man and now this group. Why do the Scottish find this village so pleasing?

View Quote Marek: I just delivered her to the French for safekeeping. How did the English get her?
Professor Johnston: It's history.
Marek: Then history will change.

View Quote [as they float down a river]
Marek: Are you, uh... married?
Lady Claire: No. We've been fighting the English since before I was born. There's no time for marriage.
Marek: Of course. Are you, uh... with... anyone?
Lady Claire: Am I with anyone?
Marek: Yeah.
Lady Claire: I'm with you.
Marek: I know, I know. What I mean is, is there, is there someone, is there someone... that you see?
Lady Claire: Do I see?
Marek: Yeah.
Lady Claire: [looks towards the river bank] Uh, nobody... It is possible they are hiding on the shore or... in the woods. They could be anywhere.

View Quote [about being trapped in medieval France] There's one thing worse than dying here and that's living here.

View Quote [to his father] Last time you cut off your beard, I think you sold the house, and we moved to Kentucky for a year.

View Quote How many lives has been lost on the cutting edge of discovery?

View Quote I'm at war with the French, as well as the Scottish. Have I forgotten anyone? The Spaniards, am I at war with them?

View Quote The way I see it, we've got what... we've got 650 years of knowledge on these guys. If we put our heads together, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to get out of here and home in twenty minutes.