Quotes About Alternate

#1. History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

David Wojnarowicz

#2. Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Maureen Dowd

#3. I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

Shary Boyle

#4. One of the things I've read about borderlines is that we alternate between a sense of entitlement and the belief that we're lower than the dirt under people's shoes.

Stacy Pershall

#5. Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

Maureen Corrigan

#6. Sometimes one awakes with the knowledge that unrecallable dreams have been lining your sleep, and though you feel rested, it is the rest of one who has lived for hours in an alternate world, another realm.

Amy Rachel Peterson

#7. One thing you should know.
This world - Paradise - isn't Earth.
It wasn't Earth. It won't ever be Earth.
It is no alternate Earth.
All else is possible....

Victor Milan

#8. I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

Joshua Bell

#9. Harrison was standing next to the dorm building, checking his Blackberry. She watched him from behind. How was she supposed to be okay just hating him and then loving him on alternate days. What if it never stopped?

Jennifer Close

#10. Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs, floating in the dazzling backwater they had found on the other side of fear.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#12. As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#13. But already this isn't quite right. The first apartment I had wasn't on the island at all. It was in Brooklyn Heights, a few blocks away from where I would have been living in the alternate reality of accomplished love, the ghostly other life that haunted me for almost two full years.

Olivia Laing

#14. In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

Jeff Greenfield

#15. 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

#16. As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it that ... adventure travel.

Buzz Aldrin

#17. You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices.

Richard Rodriguez

#18. To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#19. She scanned the Starveil posts, her mood darkening. Spartan had been a part of her life since elementary school. Losing him felt like having a piece of herself torn away. No amount of fix-it fics or alternate universes could change the fact her one true character had died.

Danika Stone

#20. A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

Nicole Mones

#21. The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

William Apess

#22. What I can give is not necessary what you will get but along our disagreements we will find some alternate ways.

Santosh Kalwar

#23. There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Frank Dobson

#24. The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

Jane Fonda

#25. The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Jerry Garcia

#26. Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

Barry Ritholtz

#27. But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.

Marcel Proust

#28. I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

Peyton Reed

#29. I work out for an hour and a half every day, alternating between cardio and weights. I also do yoga for an hour every alternate day and swim every other day.

Tena Desae

#30. I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

J Mascis

#31. Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

Stephanie Mills

#32. If personal romantic and sexual behavior ends up being public, affecting public institutions and taxpayer funds, it's fair and reasonable to debate the issue, right?
Not according to many who favor alternate lifestyles. They would rather there be no debate.

Linda Harvey

#33. The fanatic emphasis on 'Plan B' that professionals talk about is not a coward's fall-back system. It serves a purpose, a purpose that a strategist has envisioned and planned before the need for an alternate solution surfaces.

Andy Paula

#34. Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

Jonathan Gottschall

#35. 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

#36. At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder ...

Ben Gibbard

#37. The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

Jill Shalvis

#38. 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.

Alyson Richman

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

Elliott James

#40. It turns out that life in the kitchen is very similar to life on a team. Sports and kitchens are about teams. I found my alternate team sport in the kitchen.

Wylie Dufresne

#41. When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

Laura Anne Gilman

#42. It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.

Sandra Ingerman

#43. There are alternate explanations for everything.

James Cook

#44. Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

William Kristol

#45. 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.

Simon Bird

#46. On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply.

Edward Gorey

#47. We have to unclasp our palms and let go of every alternate reality where we're happier, stronger, brighter because of all the things we did differently. Those universes do not exist. But ours does. And it's okay here, if we open our eyes up and let it be.

Heidi Priebe

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

James Dashner

#49. Let exercise alternate with rest.

Pythagoras

#50. The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were "born this way" or that such behavior is an illness.

Billy Graham

#51. When it comes to cleverness, I'm afraid that I was limited to alternate tuesdays ...

William Frederick

#52. Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Nancy Kress

#53. There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Terry Pratchett

#54. I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

John Raptor

#55. War is but a continuation of diplomacy by alternate means.

Clive Barker

#56. There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Jessica Cutler

#57. You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

Charles Tupper

#58. We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#59. I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

Frederick Lenz

#60. [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

Gottfried Leibniz

#61. Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

David Niven

#62. We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

Don Kardong

#63. Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.

Agatha Christie

#64. In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

N.K. Jemisin

#65. With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

Robert Genn

#66. I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Alex Winter

#67. Just because there is no perceivable alternate exit does not mean another exit does not exist. I believe there may indeed be a way to escape.

Colleen Houck

#68. So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Dick Van Dyke

#69. 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

#70. We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

Jennifer Niven

#71. Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the existing situation - and by clearly observing that possibility and supplying sufficient energy, makes a leap into that alternate reality.

Cynthia Sue Larson

#72. The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Idries Shah

#73. 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

#74. True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#75. 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

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

Leonard Slatkin

#77. My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

Rachael Ray

#78. With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

Jorma Kaukonen

#79. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

William Mapother

#80. 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

#81. With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.

Greg Walden

#82. All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.

Paul R. Ehrlich

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

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#84. We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

Ma Jun

#85. I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.

Ryan Coogler

#86. Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

Stephen Covey

#87. I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Annie Dillard

#88. Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

Yann Martel

#89. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

Omar Khayyam

#90. '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

#91. I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

Norman Mailer

#92. People say, 'Time heals all wounds.' That may be true, but relocating to an alternate reality can sure help too. -Excerpt from the journal of Dr. Harold Quickly, 1941

Nathan Van Coops

#93. I can barely feel my arms now, and my shoulders are sore, but I take deep breaths and keep going. Every few seconds I alternate hands and lick them. "Hand job" is such a misnomer for this full-body routine. It's like I'm a one-man band.

Daria Snadowsky

#94. If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.

Maureen Johnson

#95. [Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Lester Del Rey

#96. Gabriel had never given up on anything in his life. When obstacles appeared, he found an alternate route.

Nalini Singh

#97. When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Francois Truffaut

#98. These daydreams persisted like an alternate life

Paul Murray

#99. Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

Stephen Richards

#100. Users turned on their phones and went straight to WeChat to chat with friends, read their posts, and install apps within WeChat, effectively making it an alternate operating system.

Shaun Rein