A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

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14 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Books? Yes, we have books.

- Oh, wonderful! I can learn all I want about you from books. Books will tell me what I want to know.

- Could I see the books?

- Yes, they do tell me all about you.

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

- A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

- 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!

- What are you doing?

- I heard you pounding. I came to warn you.

- How do you open that panel?

- No one opens it, only the Morlocks.

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Top rated lines from this movie

You're right, David. That's exactly what I have. All the time in the world.

When I speak of time, gentlemen, I'm referring to the fourth dimension.

Why is it that we usually ignore the forth dimension? Because we have no freedom of movement within it. You see, we can move in the other three: Up, down, forward, sideways, backward, but when it comes to time, we are prisoners.

There is no past.

You ask many questions.

The Time Machine (1960) Sound Clip

Sound clips of the most memorable quotes from The Time Machine (1960 film, based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells).

Actors: Rod Taylor (H. George Wells), Alan Young (David Filby / James Filby)

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