The best Quotes from The Mysterious Island

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

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

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

I love dogs.

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!'

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.'

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

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun. You should stay a kid as long as possible!

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

I dream with my eyes open.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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