The Slow Path/Quotes

"Is this how time normally passes? Reaaally slowwlly? In the right order?"

—Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who, "Vincent and the Doctor"

Fry: What was it like, lying in that hole for a thousand years?

Bender: I was enjoying it until you guys showed up!

—Futurama, "Roswell That Ends Well"

The Phantom Stranger: He is the only one of us that can time travel. Or can you time travel?

John Constantine: Only the regular way, guv. You know. One minute at a time.

—The Books of Magic

"I've got a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed."

—Demetri Martin

Omi: The only way I could get to the future was by waiting, so that's what I did!
Clay: You...waited?
Dojo: For fifteen hundred years?
Kimiko: But you don't have wrinkles or liver spots!

Jack: Or that "old person" smell.

—Xiaolin Showdown

The first ten million years were the worst; and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

—Marvin, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Superman: How did you get here?

Vandal Savage: The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal.

—Justice League, "Hereafter"

That wasn't so bad. I'm hardly insane at all from the aeons of isolation and blind, seething rage.

—Sarda, Eight Bit Theater

The oven doesn't really have any magical time properties to be negated. It just travels into the future at a rate of one second per second, like everyone else.

—Homestuck