Theme Park Quotes

#1. I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

Kit Harington

#2. The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.

Douglas Coupland

#3. You'll be in good hands with the colonel, you'll see.
The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.
Or I was simply hallucinating ...

J.R. Rain

#4. Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Russell Brand

#5. There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

Hendrik Poinar

#6. The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.

Jonah Goldberg

#7. Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Gary Larson

#8. My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

Jay Leno

#9. Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.

James W. Blinn

#10. Imagination ... is not a Disney theme park, but is a incredible force that when unleashed ... can help greatly better humanity.

Timothy Pina

#11. Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

Alan Moore

#12. Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.

Tim Dorsey

#13. A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Renzo Piano

#14. Life's like a roller coaster till it drops, but what should I scream for? This is my theme park.

Dwayne Carter

#15. To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

Peter Jackson

#16. I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

John Lasseter

#17. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

James W. Loewen

#18. The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.

Peter Sagal

#19. You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

Ernest Cline

#20. It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

Tom Daley

#21. This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

Conan O'Brien

#22. Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

Carl Hiaasen

#23. It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

John Lithgow

#24. And that question is, is San Francisco just a boutique city? A theme park? Or do creative forces still coalesce there?

Kevin Starr

#25. I noticed something: if I put a theme park in a story, my prose improved.

George Saunders

#26. So we're going to SeaWorld," she told me. "Part Eleven." "What, are we going to Free Willy or something?" "No," she said. "We're just going to go to SeaWorld, that's all. It's the only theme park I haven't broken into yet.

John Green

#27. We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Colin Trevorrow

#28. I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

Ryan Gosling

#29. At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

Chris Noth

#30. New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Douglas Coupland

#31. Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.

Pam Jones

#32. You always knew at a park when someone threw up.

Pam Jones