It was disconcerting to see the sun arc in less than a minute. To see a snail race by.
— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)
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
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- 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.
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