All the various time travel devices used by Verne and Bert were stored in the repository, Poe explained, including the ones that had never quite worked as they were meant to. There was one that resembled a blue police box from London–“Stolen by a doctor with delusions of grandeur, ” said Poe–one that was simply a large, transparent sphere–“ Created by a scientist with green skin and too much ego, ” said Verne–and one that was rather ordinary by comparison.“ This one looks like an automobile, ” John said admiringly, “with wings.”“ The doors open that way for a reason, ” Verne explained, “we just never figured out what it was. The inventor of this particular model tried integrating his designs into a car, an airplane, and even a steam engine train. He was running a crackpot laboratory in the Arizona desert, and he never realized that it was not his inventions themselves, but his proximity to some sort of temporal fluctuation in the local topography, that allowed them to work.” “What happened to him?” asked Jack.“He’d get the machines up to one hundred and six miles per hour, ” said Bert, “and then he’d run out of fuel and promptly get arrested by whatever constabulary had been chasing him. The sad part was that Jules figured out if he’d just gone two miles an hour faster, he’d likely have been successful in his attempt. James A. Owen
Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?
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Lisa Tawn Bergren
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?" He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?
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Stephen King
The past is obdurate.
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Stephen King
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
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Diana Gabaldon
Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand, " and live unremarkable lives?
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More Quotes By James A. Owen
Astraeus, ' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will give us what we need to keep our course.' A little prayer?' said Jack. 'To a constellation?' To what...
I think the idea of simply "enduring to the end" is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them "enduring" anything then you're doing it wrong.
Jack, " said Charles, "he's making up words again."" Yes, " Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?
It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm...
That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.
