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

topic: Character, Joy, Parks, Theme Parks

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

- Walt Disney

topic: Family, Fun, Children, Disneyland, Theme Parks

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

- Douglas Coupland

topic: New York, People, Parks, Theme Parks

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

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

topic: Regret, Kids, Abortion, Theme Parks

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

topic: Running, Long, Tough Times, Theme Parks

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

topic: Florida, Littles, Way, Theme Parks

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

- Tia Carrere

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Casinos, Parks, Roller Coaster, Coasters, Nevada

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

- Russell Brand

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

topic: Parks, Life Is, Theme, Theme Parks

I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.

- Demetri Martin

source: Twitter post from Oct 14, 2013

topic: World, Wonder, Deals, Parks And Recreation, Theme Parks

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

topic: Space, Parks, Empty, Theme Parks

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

topic: Dream, Drawing, Kind, Love Drawings, Meaningful Work

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

topic: Daughter, Fun, Children, Animator, Parks And Recreation

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

- Nora Roberts

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

topic: Thinking, People, Would Be, Theme Parks

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

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

topic: Sports, Thinking, Play, Theme Parks

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

- Mark Shapiro

topic: Summer, Sweet, Parks, Theme Parks

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

- Tom Daley

topic: Training, Parks, Theme, Theme Parks

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

- Mike Wells

topic: Would Be, Fiction, Parks, Theme Parks

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

topic: Life, Grateful, Adventure, Puberty, Theme Parks

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

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

topic: Space, Islands, Imagination, Theme Parks

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

topic: Real, Book, Scary, Theme Parks

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

topic: Children, Niece, Heart, My Niece, Pedals

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

topic: Funny, Travel, Horse, Freezer, Theme Parks

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

topic: Parks, Reason, Theme, Theme Parks

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

- Walt Disney

topic: Stars, Roles, Disneyland, Supporting Roles, Theme Parks

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

- Eric Schlosser

topic: Mcdonalds, Ethos, Circles, Full Circle, Walt

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry.

- Bill Bryson

source: Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.232, VNR AG

topic: Sorry, Mean, Shopping, Theme Parks, Shopping Centers

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

- Sufjan Stevens

topic: Thinking, Creating, Lasts, Precursor, Theme Parks

At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

- Chris Noth

topic: New York, Order, Law, Theme Parks

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

- Gary Larson

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Animal, Theme Parks

I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"

- George Saunders

topic: America, Long, Intellectual, Forethought, Dystopian

It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

- Alan Moore

source: "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

topic: Book, Cereal, Tv Shows, Crunch, Theme Parks

My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

- Jay Leno

topic: Humorous, Bad Day, Europe, Wives Love, Theme Parks

I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we're in these giant pink, poufy outfits. I remember when I was four or five, we all went to a theme park and I had to go to the bathroom but couldn't hold it in anymore. Let's just say, I had to buy a brand new outfit! But that moment was the first time I remember ever wearing something different from my sister at an event. It was my breakthrough moment when I decided I was never going to match my sister again!

- Analeigh Tipton

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Mom, Four, Parks, Older Sister, Theme Parks

This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Children, Parks, Firsts, Opening Day, Theme Parks

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Children, Class, Racism, Movie Theater, Birmingham

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

- Michael Huffington

topic: Art, Church Service, Long, Art Galleries, Theme Parks

The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.

- Jonah Goldberg

topic: Country, Europe, Ideas, Innovative Ideas, Theme Parks

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

- Alan Moore

source: "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

topic: Cereal, Television, Breakfast, Theme Parks, Breakfast Cereal

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

- James W. Loewen

source: James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.117, The New Press

topic: Native American, Past, Culture, Theme Parks

There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that they were many years ago. Many movie studios are international conglomerates now. They own everything from theme parks to toy companies to T-shirt companies to video companies. There's a lot of different wheels to be greased.

- Michael Uslan

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Years, Different, Needs, Theme Parks

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Past, Museums, Egypt, Ancient Egypt, Theme Parks