Theme Parks Quotes

• I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Joy, Parks

  54 Copy quote

• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

  Walt Disney

  Family, Children, Fun

  46 Copy quote

• New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

  Douglas Coupland

  New York, People, Parks

  21 Copy quote

• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Regret, Kids, Abortion

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

  John Lithgow

  Running, Long, Tough Times

  16 Copy quote

• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Florida, Littles, Way

  16 Copy quote

• I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

  Tia Carrere

  Casinos, Parks, Roller Coaster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

  Russell Brand

  Parks, Life Is, Theme

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.119, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.

  Demetri Martin

  World, Wonder, Deals

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2013

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

  Renzo Piano

  Space, Parks, Empty

  32 Copy quote

• Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Drawing, Kind

  21 Copy quote

• Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Children, Fun

  25 Copy quote

• Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

  Nora Roberts

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.68, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

  Iggy Azalea

  Sports, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.

  Mark Shapiro

  Summer, Sweet, Six

  4 Copy quote

• It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

  Tom Daley

  Training, Parks, Theme

  4 Copy quote

• If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

  Mike Wells

  Would Be, Fiction, Parks

  4 Copy quote

• I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

  Ryan Gosling

  Life, Grateful, Adventure

  "Welcome to Goslingland". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2011.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

  Caitlin Moran

  Islands, Space, Imagination

  "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

  R. L. Stine

  Real, Book, Scary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Niece, Heart

  5 Copy quote

• The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Travel, Horse

  4 Copy quote

• There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species.  Why would one bring them back?  To put them in a theme park?

  Hendrik Poinar

  Parks, Reason, Theme

  4 Copy quote

• Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

  Walt Disney

  Stars, Roles, Disneyland

  23 Copy quote

• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

  Caitlin Moran

  Community, Library, Festivals

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “Moranthology”, p.211, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source