Quotes About Alternate

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.

One of the things I love best about Marvel is the 'What If?' factor; being able to just say, 'Today we're going to explore a world where Magneto and Emma never gave back the X-Men. Or a world where Mary Jane shares Peter's powers.' So being able to do that is just super exciting.

There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.

I could sit here and say, 'What would have happened if I hadn't made that crazy television show, if I hadn't made those crazy movies?' Well, I'd be back in Canada working at Dairy Queen.

I thought about choices I had made and wondered what would have happened if I had made different choices

Or supposing humans had developed different abilities than those they have now and had learned magic rather than, say, calculus . .

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

We all have it in us to be something other than what we are, I thought, but we don't often get a glimpse of what we could have been

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and correct a mistake, right a wrong, change how things turned out? Who wouldn't want to have another chance to win the girl, or hit the home run? To kill Hitler, or invest in Apple or Facebook when they were just emerging? The

This "out of sight, out of mind" externalization of poverty and poison doesn't go away just because we've covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality.

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

We can know what was, but not what might have been.

Surface-dwellers had an expression about the wrath of the gods. Since goblins didn't really care for gods, they had an alternate expression-they called it the wrath of the chef.

I always say that my favorite people to interview are the people who are at the beginning and the ends of their lives because they have two alternate perspectives of the world, and neither of them are less profound.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Ah, esas otras infinitas vidas posibles que se abrían como la cola de un pavo real en torno a nuestra existencia, todas esas modificaciones de nuestro destino que podrían haber tenido lugar con tan sólo variar un pequeño detalle.

thought if I ever fell in love, I would want my beloved to wish what I had come to wish, that the book had ended differently, so that the first Mrs. Rochester might have made her escape.

Perspective is a tool used far too infrequently. If people had the courage to alternate their lens every now and then, the world would be a far more beautiful place.

Sometimes he felt as if he had stepped into an alternate universe where the old laws of nature and what was right and wrong did not apply.