164 Movie Quotes about Time (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

Memorable quotes about time, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 But what good is saved time if nobody uses it, if it just turns into more busy work?

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

22 You never hear somebody say, 'With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.' You don't hear that.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

23 'The years shall run like rabbits.'

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

24 In headaches and in worry, vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

25 What will happen to us in time? -Time starts now.

Jacqueline Bisset as Cathy; Steve McQueen as Lt. Frank Bullitt; Frank Bullitt in Bullitt (1968)

26 It is a happy occasion and a solemn one, too, for the passing of time is awe-inspiring. It's the one certain thing in all the universe.

Red Skelton as Father Time in Rudolph's Shiny New Year

27 What they forget is every time they build a better mousetrap, the mice get smarter, too.

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

28 Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath or as long as eternity. Don't linger.

Quote from The Leopard Man (1943)

29 Drink up. You've got three pints to get through. -Three pints? At lunch time? -Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent; David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

30 Why, today's the first day of winter. Isn't it? -I don't know, Tigger. My watch stopped.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh