No Time Like The Past Quotes
"For God’s sake – do not call it time travel."
"As you can see, with effect from 10 a.m. this morning, St Mary’s is up and running."
"We didn’t have any trainees before the summer unpleasantness, let alone afterwards."
"Dr Maxwell, if you could spare me a moment, please? Thank you, everyone. That will be all."
"We work for the Institute of Historical Research at St Mary’s Priory. We investigate major historical events in contemporary time."
"Once we would have sat at the back and played Battleships, but senior staff have to sit at the front and show willing."
"I cannot understand why St Mary’s finds it so difficult to recruit and retain staff."
"If you want to, you can have a little discreet fun afterwards, but there must never, ever be any shadow of doubt over who fathered the first son."
"I swear that bloody thing makes you sterile," muttered Markham.
"The noise was tremendous. Hundreds, possibly thousands of people milled around us, but there was no impression of overcrowding."
"Everyone should spend ten minutes in a Victorian lavatory. The word ‘bog’ does not apply."
"I wondered what had happened to it. Had it survived the two hundred years between then and now?"
"I once lost Leon, and how well I remembered that blessed moment of non-remembrance every morning just before I opened my eyes."
"You don’t know what it’s like to lose someone you love. The despair of waking every morning to face another day alone."
"We’ll blow them out of the water! Rule Britannia!"
"It’s not changing History, argued the voice inside my head. It hasn’t happened yet."
"We were running for my life. Because he would do it. I knew he would."
"A tsunami of blue water surged across the floor where it was absorbed into the carpet at a rate that would gladden the heart of any producer of sanitary product commercials."
"Something inside the console went bang. The lights flickered wildly and the fire extinguisher fell off the wall."
"‘Well, at least we’re not on fire,’ I said, in an effort to look on the bright side."
"‘Tell them I’m dead,’ said Markham, making no move to get up off the floor."
"For God’s sake, Max, look at this place. Look out there."
"‘I never doubted it for one moment,’ he said calmly and inaccurately."
"Your very own Margarita. Compliments of Mr Lindstrom. Look he’s even rubbed salt around the lip."
"That’s us. We’re St Mary’s. From total disaster to resounding success with but a single bound."
"If we lose, I get you. Only for seven days, of course."
"You’re the only fortune teller I’ve ever been to."
"Don’t waste your thoughts on her, Max. She was pure evil."
"You had the luckiest escape of your life when John Maxwell left your mother."
"I thought I’d got through to her. I really did think I had got through to her."
"We’re not going to lose, so I say now, in front of witnesses, the loser gets the services of the other for a period of seven days."
"People are always more important than things."
"You touch people’s lives, Max. Not in the millions, but that doesn’t make you less valid than a wooden panel."
"The world is full of things I’m not telling you, Max. Be more specific."
"Every Friday, in the History department. The Weekend Starts Here sort of thing."
"If you go to Thirsk then I’ll have to run both departments, or at least oversee your replacement. I won’t have time to do either properly, so the future of my department is at stake as well."
"The Renaissance was followed by the Age of Reason as slowly but surely, people emerged from the dark clutches of religious fanaticism."
"You are not worth less than a splash of paint on a bit of wood."
"You’ve been wreaking havoc in my life ever since. You leave a trail of catastrophe and devastation strung out behind you like a comet tail."
"I believe I have, on several occasions, requested you not to do that, Dr Maxwell."
"I'm going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about."
"I should have followed her then. I should have got out of there while I could."
"The most important thing is to get them out there on proper assignments as soon as possible, but without frightening the living daylights out of them."
"Sometimes, you never knew what he was handing you."
"It was easy. But I'm still a hero as well, right?"
"This is us. This is how we really are, so always remember this moment."
"Are you all right? Do you require an ambulance?"