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Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun,
— Jules Verne
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
— Jules Verne
Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.
— Jules Verne
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
— Chris Carter
It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
— Jules Verne
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
— Jules Verne
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
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
"Why not?" replied my uncle. "I suspect the spring is unfailing." (p. 105) — Jules Verne
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
— Jules Verne
Look with all your eyes, look.
— Jules Verne
What one man can think, another man can do.
— Jules Verne
Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
— Jules Verne
Anything a man can imagine, another can create
— Jules Verne
Monsieur is going to leave home?" "Yes," returned Phileas Fogg. "We are going round the world.
— Jules Verne
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
— Jules Verne
If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
— Jules Verne
Better have two strings to one's bow than none at all!
— Jules Verne
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
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
— Jules Verne
I am the law, and I am the judge!
— Jules Verne
It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.
— Jules Verne
But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.
— Jules Verne
It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure
— Jules Verne
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
— Jules Verne
What!You know German?
— Jules Verne
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
— Jules Verne
It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.
— Jules Verne
Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
— Jules Verne
It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
— Jules Verne
He was one of those intrepid observers who write under fire, "reporting" among bullets, and to whom every danger is welcome.
— Jules Verne
I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory.
— Jules Verne
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
— Jules Verne
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
— Jules Verne
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
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
Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?
— Jules Verne
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
— Jules Verne
A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
— Jules Verne
Where others have failed, I will not fail.
— Jules Verne
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
— Jules Verne
Mobilis in Mobile
— Jules Verne
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
— Jules Verne
Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us.
— Jules Verne
At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
— Jules Verne
His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
— Jules Verne
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
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
— Jules Verne
The travellers crossed, beyond Milligaum, the fatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali.
— Jules Verne
Died in 1814. He was
— Jules Verne
I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair,as long as his hear beats.
— Jules Verne
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
— Jules Verne
Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep.
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added. — Jules Verne
"My dear uncle-" I began.
"Nor you either," he added. — Jules Verne
the coast, irregular
— Jules Verne
proportioned. While
— Jules Verne
Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by
— Anthony Doerr
Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
— Jules Verne
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
— Jules Verne
You're never rich enough if you can be richer.
— Jules Verne
The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
— Jules Verne
The fewer one's comforts, the fewer one's needs; and the fewer one's needs, the greater one's happiness.
— Jules Verne
To the sheepfold!
— Jules Verne
I am inclined to think that the people who landed on this coast were only here a very short time ago,
— Jules Verne
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
— Jules Verne
Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
— Jules Verne
I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ...
— Mickey Spillane
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
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
— Jules Verne
I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!
— Jules Verne
No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal
— Jules Verne
what gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes. But
— Jules Verne
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
— Jules Verne
I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
— Bruce Chatwin
What I'd like to be above all is a writer ...
— Jules Verne