Quotes About Alternate

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

would only point out that as a clinician, I have spent countless hours trying to find alternate explanations that would not require the major shift in my worldview that I have had to face.

Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.

moment of tangency a fleeting glimpse at what might have been.

Or. A golden word: "Or." Opportunities, rebirths, other roads.

I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.

recalling Bachelard's comment on poetic time in The Poetics of Reverie: "In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destiny has not been able to make use of.

It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.

All those other lives. You never did get to lead them.

Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week. Strange, said I, how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor.

All of this could have been different if both of his parents had taken a breath.

One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.

Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'

I knew I would try for the Tokyo Olympics back in 2016. I was sitting in the stands as an alternate at the Rio Olympics, watching my teammates compete and thinking to myself, 'That could have been me.'