Alternative Realities Quotes

#1. I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

Isaac Hayes

#2. Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.

David Nicholls

#3. Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Tom Hodgkinson

#4. Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

Tom Franklin

#5. The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.

Noam Chomsky

#6. All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

Hal Duncan

#7. It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. What torments people have to go through when they leave the safety of their homes to become embroiled in mad adventures.

Jose Saramago

#9. The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

George Herbert

#10. Cause I'm carryin' your love with me
From West Virginia down to Tennessee
I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me
It's my strength for holdin' on
Every minute that I have to be gone
I'll have everything I'll ever need
Carryin' your love with me

George Strait

#11. In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

James Joyce

#12. What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them

Justyn Simon

#13. I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.

Tove Lo

#14. Get out of my face with your weirdness.

Kylie Scott

#15. Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#16. The solution to this paradox (according to Palahniuk) is the theory of splintered alternative realities, where all possible trajectories happen autonomously and simultaneously (sort of how Richard Linklater describes The Wizard of Oz to an uninterested cab driver in the opening sequence of Slacker).

Chuck Klosterman

#17. On moonless nights in haunted hollow
The tongues of beasts, men's blood do swallow
Shape shifting shadows that soon will fade
Leaving lifeless husks in that mountain glade
Swift now close thy sleepy eyes
Hope that your dreams hold no surprise.

Neil Leckman

#18. Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Iain Banks

#19. That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

Tracy Kidder

#20. Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility ... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

Howard Schultz

#21. Romantic love is an addiction.

Helen Fisher