The Man from Earth (2007)

Alexis Thorpe: Linda

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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.

• 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?