#alternate

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. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#alternate #always #being #customers #feel

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

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. ↗

— James Laughlin

#anthology #any #attempt #just #like

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another- ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#dreams

Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#better #chunks #content #did #disabled

Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense—but if you're aboard a Texas vessel, you'll find less inconvenience along the way." "It's because of their guns!" declared Mr. Henderson, once more escaping his reverie, bobbing out of it as if to gasp for air. "Concise, my love." Mrs. Henderson gave him a smile. "And correct. Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don't need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped…less often. ↗

— Cherie Priest

#guns #steampunk #texans #love

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#families #narrators #perspective #religion #secrets

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

— Dick Van Dyke

#choice #had #i #i think #kind

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#education #left #like #liver #look