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"Timeline" Quotes

A group of archaeologists travel back in time to medieval France and must navigate the dangers of the past to return to the present.

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You have to leave the twentieth century behind, and live in the fourteenth.

Michael Crichton

time traveladaptation

You can't have people walking in and out of the fourteenth century. It's like an infection.

Michael Crichton

time traveladaptation

The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet.

Michael Crichton

futureprogress

The point is, the way we see time is not the way time really is.

Michael Crichton

timeperception

Beware of the man who doesn't talk, and the dog that doesn't bark.

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cautionobservation

You can't stop it. The world is speeding up, and we're all along for the ride.

Michael Crichton

changeadaptation

The best way to stop somebody from prying into your business is to give them something else to pry into.

Michael Crichton

privacystrategy

The only thing more stubborn than a cat is a researcher who's just had her theory disproved.

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determinationresearch

You can't predict the future. It turns out that there's no way to predict the future.

Michael Crichton

futureprediction

The biggest problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Michael Crichton

futuretime