Alternate Universe Quotes

#1. He occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He no longer represented someday, a possibility. He represented a road not taken, a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see where it went anymore.

Ann Brashares

#2. There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

Linus Torvalds

#3. Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment ... o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

Raymond Pettibon

#4. Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked into an alternate universe that looked just like the old one, but all the rules were different and we had to relearn how to live.

Soleil Moon Frye

#5. My boss is dictating my preventive hangover care, and I just used the word swords in reference to his obvious cockfight with the man I just made out with in a public hallway. I am truly in an alternate universe.

Lisa Renee Jones

#6. I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#7. 'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny.

Richard Corliss

#8. I disbelieved what he was saying so hard that I probably created an alternate universe where it wasn't true.

Elliott James

#9. Alternate universe idea: Theo and I are living together in a huge house overflowing with hats because I bought him a new one every day to get him to stay.

Adam Silvera

#10. Thanks for coming, Zach told him. He slapped Jonas on the back. And I felt like I'd fallen into an alternate universe. One where Zach had ... friends.

Ally Carter

#11. I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

Susan Schneider

#12. In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

Jackson Katz

#13. I know, but still. Hear this now, Mina," he paused. "You are the truest of truths and in some alternate universe where people could be whatever they wanted, you would be Queen.

Chelsea Ballinger

#14. I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the narrator is me in an alternate universe.

Arthur Bradford

#15. The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like - did not sway her desire for escape into an alternate universe - where she could discover fascinating things about her inner world - or where she could hide from the real world.

Kelly Proudfoot

#16. I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

Jill Scott

#17. 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.

Joe R. Lansdale

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

Ezra Koenig

#19. I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

Mary Lambert

#20. Maybe we should have this conversation in an alternate universe where Alternate Indy gives a shit what Alternate Lee wants her to wear.

Kristen Ashley

#21. Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Ann Brashares

#22. Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one's adversaries to underestimate one's abilities."
~Sherlock Holmes

Stephanie Osborn

#23. And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Kate Atkinson

#24. If the future changed, and the time traveler we're talking about was from that future, and was the product of events that created that future, why wouldn't the time traveler also change when those events changed?

Dexter Palmer

#25. The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.

Anjali Chugh

#26. Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

Stephanie Osborn

#27. I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

Sara Douglass

#28. Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.

Michael A. Arnzen

#29. It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.
This world was dead.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#30. Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this one, claimed his life. As if he was his own ghost, standing slightly behind himself, observing.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#31. Even though this world is narrow, it is wide ... to those who understand.
This world isn't the only one.

CLAMP

#32. Enemy," hiss the bushes all around. The rest of the Pride glided forward, surrounding Lily, Rowan, and Spike.

Josephine Angelini

#33. All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.
And this one is Teddy's.

Kate Atkinson

#34. I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

William Mapother

#35. A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement."
~Sherlock Holmes

Stephanie Osborn

#36. The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

James Anthony Froude