37 Quotes by H.G. Wells (Sound Clips) - page 2

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11 What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust!

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

12 You! All of you! I'm going back to my own time! I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle, the hopeless future. But at least I could die among men!

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

13 Well, the past, man's past, is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments when a few voices have spoken up and these rare moments have made the history of man, man's past, a glorious thing.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

14 Now, what was that miracle that Moses did? Turned a stick into a snake. Well, that won't do. Not in the dark. I'd get bitten.

Alec Guinness in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)

15 There is no past.

Yvette Mimieux in The Time Machine (1960)

16 The one characteristic which distinguished man from the animal kingdom was the spirit of self-sacrifice. And you have that quality.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

17 And who so makes his bargain with Mephistopheles, that good may accrue from it to himself, shall find in the fullness of time that the price must be paid in full.

Alec Guinness in The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954)

18 They may, for instance, be able to smell colors.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)

19 No, no. It's supported from the ground by rays, probably some form of magnetic flux, like invisible legs.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)

20 This is an electronic eye. The Martians modeled it after their own eye. They use it the way we use a periscope.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)