No Time Like the Past Quotes

“There’s something very satisfying about outwitting religious fanaticism.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“Believe it or not, there were rules. Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn’t exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“All bosses are interchangeable. The only difference is how they like their tea.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“There would be a crafts tent and a small local farmers’ market for anyone who wanted to buy a small local farmer.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“I really don’t know why these things are always passed down through the male line – girl children are much more robust than their brothers, and let’s face it, Max – while here may always be doubt about the identity of the father, most people are usually fairly clear about who the mother is.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“Whatever it is, you need to face it down. You give it a good kicking, because that’s what you have to do. Then you walk away. And then you turn around, walk back and give it an even bigger one, just because you can.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“The three of them must disappear. Start a new life in a strange, new, foreign world. America, maybe. Or Manchester.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“I ever retire, I’m going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“This had once been a garden. Beautiful glazed pots stood against the walls but now were cracked, crumbling, and contained only dead bushes and weeds. A broken wooden bench had been overturned and lay forlornly on its side. Perhaps even gardens were considered sinful.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“If I ever retire, I’m going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“We need to be clear on this. I don’t like children. There isn’t an orifice that doesn’t exude something unpleasant. Sometimes, all of them exude simultaneously.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“Sands gestured with his stick, explaining all the workings to the tiny female brain, exactly as every other man-sized little boy was doing to his female companions.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“You don’t want to mess with a pair of historians. We’re not nice people.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“You’re a felon?’ It takes talent to hiss when there isn’t a single ‘s’ in the sentence. ‘Well, yes. Aren’t you?”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“By exercising my fabled management skills, I alternately teased, bribed, threatened, called in favours, drowned them in tea, and refused to release them until I got what I wanted. I really can’t understand why some managers find it so difficult to motivate their teams.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“Each side was lined with modern goldsmiths’ and jewellers’ shops. Previously, this area had been occupied by butchers and fishmongers, all of whom were famous for dumping their rotting produce daily into the River Arno. Without thinking, I mentioned this. ‘That’s offal,’ said Sands, and was immediately forbidden to speak again during this assignment.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“I’ve had one or two occasions in my life when the proverbial red mist has descended. I’m not proud of them, but they happen occasionally. This was one of those occasions. I have no memory of getting out of bed, or even of the next few minutes at all, but when, finally, I came to rest, I was standing, panting and in pain, by the window, tangled in tubes, with IV drips on the floor, the fruit bowl in tiny fragments, the window broken, the bedclothes on the floor, and one of the pillows ripped to shreds and bits of it floating everywhere.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“Where?’ ‘What?’ Mrs Partridge coughed. She probably had an afternoon she wanted to get on with. He continued. ‘There was some discussion over lunch – a variety of opinions were expressed and a challenge offered.’ He breathed heavily. I was enjoying myself so much that I gave no thought as to where all this might be leading me. ‘It would appear that last year, during a week of fund-raising activities, the University of Thirsk enjoyed considerable”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn’t exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“Over there, quite nearby, a thick pillar of black smoke rose vertically, carrying the soul of beauty up to heaven. We’d found the Bonfire.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“The future was unfamiliar and far more frightening than anything on the other side of that door was. Unexplored territory. Terror Firma.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“We’ve got to stop clouting you around the side of the head. It’s not doing you as much good as we hoped.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“I assembled my carefully selected victims and once they were all present, got Miss Lee to lock the door. By exercising my fabled management skills, I alternately teased, bribed, threatened, called in favours, drowned them in tea, and refused to release them until I got what I wanted. I really can’t understand why some managers find it so difficult to motivate their teams.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“I suspected a stun gun would be my best bet but, of course, I hadn’t brought mine with me today because this was supposed to be the most boring assignment ever. I really should be slapped round the side of the head on a regular basis.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“Most were family groups, headed by father and mother and accompanied by what seemed vast numbers of tiny replicas, which I subsequently discovered to be children. These pale copies of their parents seemed very well behaved although that might possibly be due to the enormous amount of clothing weighing them down.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like The Past

“I held out my hand while he poured over it,”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past

“When a man could no longer pay his debts, the soldiers would seize the tabletop he would be using to display his wares (banco) and break it (rotta). Hence, bankruptcy.”
― Jodi Taylor, No Time Like the Past