Back In Time – Quotes

What happens is, when

What happens is, when I perform, I’m somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries. Etta James

Perhaps it’s true you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. Eric Weiner

Now that I\\’m almost

Now that I’m almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger – decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life’s goal to understand the human condition – and I wish I could … Read more

If you read Exodus

If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in … Read more

I have a lot

I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn’t teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line. Elaine Equi

You simply have to

You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent … Read more

I\’m working on a

I’m working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It’s kind of a big, crazy Back to the Future comedy. So, of course, it’s the Civil War – I play the banjo. I was just having a conversation with one of the producers about … Read more

If you are in

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time. Eckhart Tolle

The old alchemy, or

The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they’ve been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the … Read more

Sometimes you have to

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone. Frances Mayes