Timey-Wimey Ball/Quotes

""I hate time travel.""

- Just About Everyone, Bob and George

""Most people think that time is like a river, that flows swift and sure in one direction... but I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you; they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm.""

- The Prince, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

""When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes.'""

- Billy Pilgrim, Slaughterhouse Five (by Kurt Vonnegut)

""People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.""

- The Doctor, giving us the Trope Namer in Doctor Who

""Okay, kid. This is is where it gets complicated.""

- Amy Pond to her younger alternate-universe self, in the midst of one of the most convoluted time-SNAFUs imaginable, also in Doctor Who

""Time isn't a straight line, it's all... bumpy-wumpy. there's loads of boring stuff, like sundays and tuesdays and thursday afternoons.""

- The Doctor, the really love this trope over in Doctor Who

"GA: Why Is It That When The Subject Of Temporal Mechanics Is Broached Your Sparing Human Intellects Instantly Assume The Most Ingratiating Posture Of Surrender Imaginable"

- Kanaya Maryam, Homestuck, after a conversation with John.

"TG: the thing with time travel is

TG: you cant overthink it

TG: just roll with it and see what happens

TG: and above all try not to do anything retarded"

- Dave Strider, Homestuck, explaining his theory on temporal mechanics.

"YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL"

- Hearts Boxcars on temporal mechanics.

""When you're dealing with time travel it's important to establish whose rules are in play. Is this 12 Monkeys rules where you can't change shit? Or Back to The Future rules where you can change shit but the time line is kind of easygoing about it? Or Terminator rules where you can change shit, but then maybe you can't change shit, and then you make a God-awful TV series and Christian Bale yells at someone?""

- Yahtzee, reviewing Darkest of Days

""I hate temporal mechanics!""

- Miles O'Brien and Miles O'Brien, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

""Time is a tangled web. Try not to dwell on all the loose ends.""

- Nozdormu, Dragon Aspect of Time, World of Warcraft

""That's the problem with time travel. Everything's different when you get back.""

- Lina Inverse, Slayers Perfect