58 Time Capsules Quotes

Following is our list of time capsules quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about time travel.

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Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. — Mattie Stepanek

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. — Eoin Colfer

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. — Jeremy Irons

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. — Jeremy Irons

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. — J. G. Ballard

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream? — Ashleigh Brilliant

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by. — Muhammad Iqbal

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet. — James Patterson

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future — Sally Mann

We're all just memories of our future selves. — Reggie Watts

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable — Martin Amis

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember. — Evelyn Waugh

Time Machine Quotes

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now? — Zack de la Rocha

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. — H. G. Wells

We spent a lot of time trying to understand what GPT-4 is capable of. Getting it out in the world is how we learn. We’re constantly making updates, include a bunch of improvements, so that the model is much more scalable to whatever personality or sort of mode you want it to be in. — Greg Brockman

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines. — Vitalik Buterin

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. — Eric S. Raymond

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too. — Sarah Connor

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. — Donna J. Haraway

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate. — Arthur Koestler

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us. — Sherry Turkle

Time Travel Quotes

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! — Yuri Gagarin

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. - Ibn Battuta

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain — Jack Kerouac

What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream. — G-Eazy

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. — Harun Yahya

Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now. — Sylvia Earle

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot

This country has been very good to us, every time we have a fight in the UFC it's incredible here in Australia and we want to go everywhere. We want to travel everywhere and continue to do fights all over the country. — Dana White

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More Time Capsules Quotes

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom. — George Balanchine

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community. — Albert Einstein

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about. — Ab-Soul

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like. — Alfred Hitchcock

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. — John Lehman

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder. — Adrien Brody

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. — John F. Lehman, Jr.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic. — Chuck Palahniuk

Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment. — Eminem

Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first. — Jay Leno

The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn't have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation. — Mireille Guiliano

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!' — George Lucas

Each cylinder is about 10 percent ancient air, a pristine time capsule of greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide - all unchanged from the day that snow formed and first fell. — Robert Lee Hotz on ice taken from bore holes in Antarctica

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment. — Eminem

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007. — Kanye West

I believe that, your art is like a time capsule for where you were at, where your mentality was at, at that specific or that particular space in time. A lot of times people want the same thing over and over again; I'm not going to give you that, I'm just not. So, I want my fans to continue to grow with me and let's take this journey, because it ain't gon' never stop. — Jon Connor

It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012. — Phil Collen

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. — Alfred Hitchcock

We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008. — Barack Obama

If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there. — Kanye West

When I listen to little fourth-dimension artifacts, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that when you're writing the song and recording the song, you're already sending a message to the future listener, whoever and wherever and whenever that will be. — Will Oldham

You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf. — Werner Herzog

It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything. — Nick Cave

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