The best Quotes from Journey to the Center of the Earth

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

Books

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

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Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

Josh Hutcherson

Actors

I love dogs.

Josh Hutcherson

I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'

Josh Hutcherson

I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'

Josh Hutcherson

Love at First Sight

T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and jeans.

Josh Hutcherson

I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.

Brendan Fraser

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Brendan Fraser

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Brendan Fraser

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

Brendan Fraser

Vietnam

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Brendan Fraser

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Jules Verne in Around the World in Eighty Days

Traveling

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

Jules Verne in The Mysterious Island

Solitude & Loneliness

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Jules Verne

Cats

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Jules Verne in Around the World in Eighty Days

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Nature & Environment

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning... and let anything better come as a surprise.

Jules Verne in The Mysterious Island

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Jules Verne

Trains

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Storm

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Law

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

Jules Verne in Around the World in Eighty Days

England & Great Britain

I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

Jules Verne in From the Earth to the Moon

Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot.

Jules Verne in From the Earth to the Moon

Florida

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Religion Science

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

Art Science

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Jules Verne in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Ocean

The best Quotes from Journey to the Center of the Earth

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