Top 100 Quotes About Jules Verne
#1. As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
Viggo Mortensen
#2. I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ...
Mickey Spillane
#3. Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.
Stanislaw Ulam
#4. I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
Chris Carter
#5. How were you supposed to feel when you adored the novels of Jules Verne, Maupassant, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Simenon and loads of others who then turned out to be complete bastards?
Jean-Michel Guenassia
#6. I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
Bruce Chatwin
#7. Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by
Anthony Doerr
#8. In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
Kage Baker
#9. I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
Vladimir Putin
#10. To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
Lee De Forest
#11. If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.
Anthony Doerr
#12. By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision
Hugo Gernsback
#13. A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Etienne
Anthony Doerr
#14. These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and
Jules Verne
#15. I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago,
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#16. Night came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon. Clouds were rising from the east, and already overcast a part of the heavens.
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#17. 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
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#18. The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
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#19. Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
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#20. In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard.
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#22. The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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#23. Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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#24. Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
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#25. Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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#26. Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That
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#27. Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock
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#28. The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
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#29. Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
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#30. It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
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#31. It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
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#33. In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever - increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some more economic light than gas, and some cheaper motive power than steam. All
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#34. I am induced to think," said Pencroft, "that this man was not wrecked on Tabor Island, but that in consequence of some crime he was left there.
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#35. Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?
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#36. An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
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#37. Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)
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#38. It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
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#39. Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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#40. In the shape of innumerable stars. Thus was formed the Nebulae, of which astronomers have reckoned up nearly 5,000. Among these 5,000 nebulae there is one which has received the name of the Milky Way, and which contains eighteen
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#41. I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
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#42. And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?
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#43. that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same
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#44. But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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#45. Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
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#46. All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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#47. Hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!
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#48. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility.
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#49. If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
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#50. The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
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#51. Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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#52. On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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#53. I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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#54. The happiest animal in the world," he used to say, " would be a snail who could make himself just such a shell as he wanted;I shall try to be an intelligent snail.
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#55. I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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#56. And this accident came about ... ?Through nature's unpredictability not man's incapacity. No errors were committed in our maneuvers. Nevertheless, we can't prevent a loss of balance from taking its toll. One may defy human laws, but no one can withstand the laws of nature.
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#57. Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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#58. We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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#59. This lucid explanation of the phenomena we had witnessed appeared to me quite satisfactory. However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons. Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature.
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#60. A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
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#61. The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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#62. When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
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#63. I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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#64. Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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#65. Poh! doctor, one has only just to follow things along as they happen, and he can always work his way out of a scrape! The safest plan, you see, is to take matters as they come.
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#66. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
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#67. He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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#68. His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.
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#69. A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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#71. I suppose that, after visiting the curious coasts of Arabia and Egypt, the Nautilus will go down the Indian Ocean again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape of Good Hope.
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#72. Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy.
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#73. Hurrah!" cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). "Distance does not exist!" And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just escaped a severe fall, which would have proved to him that distance was by no means an empty name.
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#74. Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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#75. Wait a few minutes, our lantern will be lit, and, if you like light places, you will be satisfied.
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#76. I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you
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#77. Huzza for the Queen! Huzza for Old England!
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#78. However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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#79. Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!
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#80. How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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#81. How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
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#82. Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
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#83. Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
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#84. Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
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#85. With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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#86. His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
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#87. On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
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#88. No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
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#90. As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United States of America.
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#91. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved.
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#92. What I'd like to be above all is a writer ...
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#94. Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
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#95. And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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#96. In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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#97. Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
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#98. That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!
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#99. Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-coloured gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
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#100. Whereas, once under way, you can get so far that going forwards is the only choice.
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