Top 100 Verne's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#3. Who are The Verne?
What are The Verne?
Where is The Verne's next adventure?
Tom Ford
#4. Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.
Mike Myers
#5. Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction - and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.
Arthur C. Clarke
#6. The bulldogs with the first points on the board. Tim Tebow looking to change that.
Verne Lundquist
#7. 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.
Jules Verne
#8. 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
Jules Verne
#9. 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.
Jules Verne
#10. Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Jules Verne
#11. I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
Jules Verne
#12. In leading People, take a page from parenting: Establish a handful of rules, repeat yourself a lot, and act consistently with those rules. This is the role and power of Core Values. If discovered and used effectively, these values guide all the relationship decisions and systems in the company.
Verne Harnish
#13. When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
Jules Verne
#14. 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?
Jules Verne
#15. 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.
Jules Verne
#16. 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.
Jules Verne
#17. We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Jules Verne
#18. Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
#19. That's what people used to tell my parents," Verne said. "Why 'Verne'? they'd ask. And my parents would say, 'No, he's just small for his age.
Robert Kroese
#20. 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.
Jules Verne
#21. I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
Jules Verne
#22. 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.
Jules Verne
#23. 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.
Jules Verne
#24. It was down in Jake's old barroom Behind the Patsies' park; Jake was settin' 'em up as usual And the night was agittin' dark. At the bar stood ole Verne Mackenzie, And his eyes was bloodshot red
Robert Coover
#25. In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Verne Troyer
#26. There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!
Verne Lundquist
#27. 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.
Jules Verne
#28. However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
Jules Verne
#29. I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.
Jules Verne
#30. To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.
Jules Verne
#31. In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Jules Verne
#32. Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer
#33. Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
Jules Verne
#34. There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
Verne Troyer
#35. Well, old Barbicane, they might have cut me into slices, from my feet upwards, before I could have worked out that problem.'
'Because you don't know algebra,' replied
Barbicane quietly.
'Ah, there you are, you fellows with your x's. You think algebra is an answer to everything.
Jules Verne
#36. to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business.
Jules Verne
#37. While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert ... that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
Jules Verne
#39. Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
Jules Verne
#40. The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.
Jules Verne
#41. There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Verne Troyer
#42. There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all!
Jules Verne
#43. So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Jules Verne
#44. There's an island over there. On that island there are trees. Under those trees there are animals carrying around chops and roast beefs, and I wouldn't mind a bit sinking my teeth into a little good meat.
Jules Verne
#45. It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Jules Verne
#46. There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time
Jules Verne
#47. Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!'
'I hope not,' replied the reporter.
Jules Verne
#48. It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
Verne Troyer
#50. I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.
Verne Troyer
#51. Better have two strings to one's bow than none at all!
Jules Verne
#52. Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me.
I nodded.
'And he's taking you with him?'
I nodded again.
'Where?' she asked.
I pointed towards the centre of the earth.
'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant.
'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
Jules Verne
#53. 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?
Jules Verne
#54. It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
Jules Verne
#55. Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
Jules Verne
#56. 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.
Jules Verne
#57. Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock
Jules Verne
#58. In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
Verne Troyer
#59. Life is not all sunshine, but yet I would willingly consent to live ten centuries out of pure curiosity!" That
Jules Verne
#60. Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
Jules Verne
#61. Verne frowned. "Calm down. Don't exert yourself in your condition."
Salen looked at Verne in amazement. "Don't exert --! My dear woman, we are all about to die! I don't think it damn well matters if I shit my pants at this point --
Ash Gray
#62. Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
Jules Verne
#63. Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
Jules Verne
#64. Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do.
Verne Troyer
#65. 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.
Jules Verne
#67. 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.
Jules Verne
#68. 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.
Jules Verne
#69. 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.
Jules Verne
#70. 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
#71. 'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
Jules Verne
#72. We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing.
Verne Troyer
#73. 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.
Jules Verne
#74. I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago,
Jules Verne
#75. I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
Verne Troyer
#76. 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
#77. And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?
Jules Verne
#78. The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.
Jules Verne
#79. If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
Jules Verne
#80. The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.
Verne Lundquist
#81. 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.
Jules Verne
#82. Hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!
Jules Verne
#83. All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Jules Verne
#84. 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!
Jules Verne
#85. But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
Jules Verne
#86. that before long chance would betray the captain's secrets. The next day, the 1st of June, the Nautilus continued the same
Jules Verne
#87. There are no straight lines in nature or business.
Verne Harnish
#88. 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
#89. 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.
Jules Verne
#90. I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
Jules Verne
#91. 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
Jules Verne
#92. Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne
#93. I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ...
Mickey Spillane
#94. It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
#95. Now," said I, "we must not let this water run away."
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105)
Jules Verne
#96. An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
Jules Verne
#97. Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?
Jules Verne
#98. 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.
Jules Verne
#99. 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
Jules Verne
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