It was disconcerting to see the sun arc in less than a minute. To see a snail race by.
12 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:27:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- At first, I pushed the lever forward ever so slightly and the laboratory grew faint around me.
- No change. Everything exactly as it had been before.
- But no. The clock said 6:31 when I started, and now it was 8:09. And the candle, shorter by inches.
- And yet by my watch, which was in the machine with me only a few seconds had passed.
- It was disconcerting to see the sun arc in less than a minute. To see a snail race by.
- My flowers flinging wide their petals to embrace the new day.
- The hours speeding across the face of my sundial.
- The flowers closing their eyes for the night.
- It was wonderful! Changes that normally took hours, occurring in seconds.
[...]
Top rated lines from this movie
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)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) 526 Sounds / Quotes
The Hunt for Red October 940 Sounds / Quotes
Black Belt Jones (1974) 458 Sounds / Quotes
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 478 Sounds / Quotes
DuckTales: The Movie (1990) 563 Sounds / Quotes