Jules Verne Quote by Anonymous

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it.…

— Enid Blyton

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it.…

— Enid Blyton

“Soy Jules Verne Durand, de Laterre...”

— Anonymous

“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry—English, Russian and French—than in any other…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The professor pointed out how he could drop a keel and a propeller into the water, in case he came down at sea, and…

— Bertrand R. Brinley

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…

— Viggo Mortensen

“At night she runs her fingertips over her father’s model: the bell tower, the display windows. She imagines Jules Verne’s characters walking along the…

— Anthony Doerr

“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly…

— Tim Cummings

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

— Mickey Spillane

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when I read it as a kid.

— J-Hope

“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…

— Anthony Doerr

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years…

— Stanislaw Ulam

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…

— Lee De Forest

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…

— Kage Baker

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…

— Lee De Forest