The Slow Path/Quotes

""Is this how time normally passes? Reaaally slowwlly? In the right order?""

- Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who, "Vincent and the Doctor"

"Fry: What was it like, lying in that hole for a thousand years?

Bender: I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!"

- Futurama, "Roswell That Ends Well"

"The Phantom Stranger: He is the only one of us that can time travel. Or can you time travel?

John Constantine: Only the regular way, guv. You know. One minute at a time."

- The Books of Magic

""I've got a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed.""

- Demetri Martin

"Omi: The only way I could get to the future was by waiting, so that's what I did!

Clay: You...waited?

Dojo: For fifteen hundred years?

Kimiko: But you don't have wrinkles or liver spots!

Jack: Or that "old person" smell."

- Xiaolin Showdown

"The first ten million years were the worst; and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."

- Marvin, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Superman: How did you get here?

Vandal Savage: The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal."

- Justice League, "Hereafter"

"That wasn't so bad. I'm hardly insane at all from the aeons of isolation and blind, seething rage."

- Sarda, Eight Bit Theater

"The oven doesn't really have any magical time properties to be negated. It just travels into the future at a rate of one second per second, like everyone else."

- Homestuck