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Quotes About Parallel

Kedilerin kentiyle insanlar?n kenti iç içeydi, ama ayn? kent de?ildiler.
~ Italo Calvino
Domani, Lettore e Lettrice, se sarete insieme, se vi coricherete nello stesso letto come una coppia assestata, ognuno accenderà la lampada al suo capezzale e sprofonderà nel suo libro; due letture parallele accompagneranno l'approssimarsi del sonno; prima tu poi tu spegnerete la luce; reduci da universi separati, vi ritroverete fugacemente nel buio dove tutte le lontananze si cancellano, prima che sogni divergenti vi trascinino ancora tu da una parte e tu dall'altra.
~ Italo Calvino
Is it enough to say you would like to live several lives simultaneously?
~ Italo Calvino
They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.
~ Daniel Handler
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
~ Ariel Dorfman
Containment doesn't work. Containment does buy time. It could slow. It very well could slow the spread. But while you're slowing the spread, you better be doing something in parallel to be prepared for when that virus breaks out.
~ Rick Bright
In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis.
~ Unknown
Think of it as a parallel universe. But maybe it's the real one, and we're in a dream.
~ Joe Haldeman
You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-
~ Diana Wynne Jones
In addition, the fascists adopted an economic policy that is closely parallel to, and in many respects identical with, today's progressivism. Mussolini called this policy "corporatism," but a more descriptive term would be state-run capitalism.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Do you think there could be a universe next door?
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
metaphor (n) a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing as a way to compare the two and note their similarities; for example: "my mother is a battleship" or "school was a rollercoaster
~ Unknown
La rue de la Colonie Est parallèle A la rue de la Providence Et chacune d'elles (Si l'une l'est, n'est-ce pas, l'autre l'est aussi) Perpendiculaire A la rue Bobillot "Sergent du génie mort au Tonkin (1860-1885)" Au 76bis se trouve un ESPACE CANIN
~ Unknown
In a vivid insight, a flash of black lightning, he saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending to a perfection, but horizontal. Time was a great fallacy; existence was without history, was always now, was always this being caught in the same fiendish machine. All those painted screens erected by man to shut out reality - history, religion, duty, social position, all were illusions, mere opium fantasies. - The French Lieutenant's Woman
~ John Fowles
At most, a certain resemblance might have been observed.
~ John Guy
Douglas, I've made a few small changes to acknowledge the passing of the years. Hope you're alive and well in some parallel universe - you're sadly missed in this one. John Lloyd, Oxfordshire, 2013
~ John Lloyd
The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.
~ Emma Thompson
You see, that which is exposed to the exterior is...smooth and dry clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it...it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?
~ Maria Irene Fornes
You see, that which is exposed to the exterior... is smooth and dry and clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it... (whispering) it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?
~ Maria Irene Fornes
Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.
~ Marcel Proust
From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine's room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not staying in the house, which the electric light inside, dissected by the slats of the shutters, striped from top to bottom with parallel bars of gold.
~ Marcel Proust
I've been at some pains to say that I fear for the country if Mr.[DonALD] Trump should be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall.
~ William Weld
Our parallel lives resemble paths bordered at intervals by flower-vases placed symmetrically but not facing each other.
~ Marcel Proust
She felt the State of Rock was symbolised by the stadium-type concerts given earlier that summer by the likes of the Who the Stones and Elton John, causing her to opine, 'The time is right for an aggressive infusion of life blood.' She also claimed the new London punk scene had not been inspired by the New York new wave, but was instead developing parallel to it.
~ Unknown