The Man from Earth (2007)
Alexis Thorpe: Linda
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Quotes
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Dan : Time... you can't see it, you can hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of... becoming, what we... are, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it... slice by slice.
Linda Murphy : Clocks measure time.
Dan : No, they measure themselves, the objective referee of a clock is another clock.
Edith : All very interesting, but what has it got to do with John?
Dan : He, he might be man who... lives... outside of time as we know it.
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Harry : [insistent] *You* are creating the mystery here obviously y'have something you'd like to say. Say it.
John Oldman : [Hesitant] Maybe... I...
Harry : [sing-song] Ten, nine, eight, seven, si...
Sandy : [Chiding] Harry, stop.
John Oldman : There is something I'm tempted to tell you I think, I've never done this before, I wonder how it will pan out. I wonder if I could ask you a silly question?
Art : [Scoffing] John, we're teachers, we answer silly questions all the time
Linda Murphy : [Teasing] Hey!
John Oldman : What if a man from the upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?