Parallels Quotes

• Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

  Pete Carroll

  Branches, Infinite, Parallel Universe

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• There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Block, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

  Emma Thompson

  Two, Switching, Flashback

  "Emma Thompson Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Her Preparation Process, Getting Input from Richard Sherman, Terrence Malick’s VOYAGE OF TIME, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

  John Boorman

  Dream, Black And White, Giving

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Simple, Special

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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• It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Distance, Space

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• The Tao asks you to clearly see the parallels between you and this naturally flowing substance that allows life to sustain itself. Live as water lives, since you are water. Become as contented as the fluid that animates and supports you. Let your thoughts and behaviors move smoothly in accordance with the nature of all things.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Support You, Water

  Dr Wayne W Dyer (2009). “Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Construction, Destruction

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Way, Century

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• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Umpires, Parking Space

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• I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Wanted

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Math, Degrees, Chef

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• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

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• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

  Calvin Trillin

  Talent, Parking

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• Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Reality, Technology

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

  Bruce Catton

  Track, Shining, Steel

  Bruce Catton, Oliver Jensen (1993). “Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works”, Promontory

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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Nature, Environment

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• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  Florence Welch

  Teenager, Red, Rooms

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• The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

  Conrad Hall

  Light, Sun, Far Away

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• People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Dark, Artist

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• Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

  Joshua Jackson

  Ideas, West Coast, Strikes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

  Michio Kaku

  Reality, Rivers, Worry

  Interview With Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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