Quotes About Alternate

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

Puede que vivir, seguir viviendo, sea saber que lo real no lo es totalmente, puede que sea elegir otra realidad cuando la que hemos conocido adquiere un peso insoportable.

People do judge books by their covers, and the magazine editors deciding whether to include your book on their pages are working in a visual medium. So if you're less than thrilled by the cover your publisher proposes, don't be afraid to ask for an alternate version. Odds are that they want you to be happy with the final product, anyway.

S? modifici trecutul nu înseamn? s? modifici un singur fapt, ci s?-i anulezi consecinÈ›ele, care tind s? fie infinite. Cu alte cuvinte, am putea spune c? înseamn? s? creezi dou? istorii universale.

En todas las ficciones, cada vez que un hombre se enfrenta con diversas alternativas, opta por una y elimina las otras; en la del casi inextricable Ts'ui Pên, opta —simultáneamente— por todas. Crea, así, diversos porvenires, diversos tiempos, que también proliferan y se bifurcan.

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

How like science fiction our lives are, she thinks. The alternate universe in which, innocently, ignorantly, we continue to exist as we'd been, unaware that, in another universe, we'd have ceased to be.

In other words, the dream itself, hidden in the memory, rises to its own defense when it hears itself being challenged by an alternate version, and so reveals itself.

I had this sudden feeling, like my life could have easily taken another path.

However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.

The H-P system indicates the age of the bird in essentially the same way as the Life-Year system. The bird is considered to be in its first year (with plumages labeled first basic and first alternate) from hatching until the prebasic molt a year later, in its second year from that time until the following prebasic molt, and so on.

There is wanting the unobtainable, and there is the obtaining of desire, and the greatest of these is the wanting, especially since the object of desire usually exists only in some alternate reality, to be mocked by actuality.

Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment and Joseph Stalin a Georgian peasant?

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

this route is only one of several imaginary paths.

Had Shastri been given another five years, there would have been no Nehru–Gandhi dynasty. Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi would almost certainly still be alive, and in private life. The former would be a (failed) entrepreneur, the latter a recently retired airline pilot with a passion for photography. Finally, had Shastri lived longer, Sonia Gandhi would still be a devoted and loving housewife, and Rahul Gandhi perhaps a middle-level manager in a private sector company.

Sometimes I like to go out; sometimes I like to chill and do nothing.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

always free            to change your mind and                choose a different future, or                  a different                      past.