Alternate Quotes

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. (Franz Schubert)
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse. View quote
Howard Zinn
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. View quote
Greg Walden
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains. View quote
Erica Jong
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. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Alternate form: I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday be communists. I am a socialist. I think that we should strive toward a socialist society - all the way to communism. View quote
Jane Fonda
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system.... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
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... View quote
Ben Gibbard
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it. (Joan Aiken)
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. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
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. View quote
Ann Brashares
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product. View quote
Bo Bennett
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking. View quote
Alex Winter
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. View quote
Alfred Kazin
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. View quote
Bill Hayden
There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West. View quote
Frank Dobson
There's no point in living in an alternate reality. View quote
Jessica Cutler
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)
I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. View quote
William Mapother
I have some hopes for the future. One of the things I hope the new leader will address is an integrated energy policy, because we need to take advantage of the tremendous brainpower that we have amassed over the years relative to conventional and oil-sands oil and gas, and funnel those energies into alternate forms of energy for the future. By that I mean coal, coal gasification, coalbed methane, solar power, wind power, nuclear power, hydro power, all forms of energy other than conventional and oil-sands gas and oil. View quote
Ralph Klein
There is more than one kind of wisdom, and all are essential in the world; it is not bad that they should alternate. View quote
Marguerite Yourcenar
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. View quote
Henry James