But as the earth rotates so fast that the surface is traveling anything up to a thousand miles an hour, when he stopped it like that, everything on the earth's surface was jerked forward more violently than if it had been fired from a cannon.

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18 seconds sound clip from the The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:27:20 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Oh, dear. I thought something would go wrong.

- Maydig, where are you? There's been an earthquake or something terrible. Maydig! Maydig!

- Perhaps I should explain what had happened.

- There hadn't been an earthquake in the ordinary sense of the word.

- But as the earth rotates so fast that the surface is traveling anything up to a thousand miles an hour, when he stopped it like that, everything on the earth's surface was jerked forward more violently than if it had been fired from a cannon.

- Every human being, every house, every tree, all the world as we know it, had been destroyed. Luckily, with the sole exception of George Fotheringay.

- Well, there was only one thing for him to do.

- Oh dear, I wish I'd never started all this. Well, I'll see what I can do.

- Well, let me be back before ever the miracles began.

- Let everything be just as it was before the lamp turned upside down, back in the Long Dragon last Tuesday night.

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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.

All that appear on the table, please, as required.

You don't believe, I suppose, that some common sort of person like myself, as it might be sitting here now, might have some sort of twist inside him that made him able to do things just by willpower?

Of course the moon won't stop. You'll have to stop the rotation of the earth, which will put a stop to time. Just till we finish what we're doing.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) Sound Clip

Discover the power of miracles with quotes and sound bites from Alec Guinness' captivating performance in "The Man Who Could Work Miracles". A classic episode of Theatre Royal from 1954, based on the H.G. Wells novel.

Actors: Alec Guinness (Narrator / George Fotheringay)

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