Quotessence
Home / Topics / Theme Parks Quotes

Theme Parks Quotes

Browse 49 quotes about Theme Parks.

Theme Parks Quotes

“In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments of the stories and putting them in an immersive environment. It is taking the theme park experience to a new level.' And of course I wish Thierry and his colleagues every possible luck, and I am sure it will be wonderful. But I cannot conceal my feelings; and the more I think of those millions of beaming kids waving their wands and scampering the Styrofoam turrets of Hogwartse_STmk, and the more I think of those millions of poor put-upon parents who must now pay to fly to Orlando and pay to buy wizard hats and wizard cloaks and wizard burgers washed down with wizard meade_STmk, the more I grind my teeth in jealous irritation. Because the fact is that Harry Potter is not American. He is British. Where is Diagon Alley, where they buy wands and stuff? It is in London, and if you want to get into the Ministry of Magic you disappear down a London telephone box. The train for Hogwarts goes from King's Cross, not Grand Central Station, and what is Harry Potter all about? It is about the ritual and intrigue and dorm-feast excitement of a British boarding school of a kind that you just don't find in America. Hogwarts is a place where children occasionally get cross with each other—not 'mad'—and where the situation is usually saved by a good old British sense of HUMOUR. WITH A U. RIGHT? NOT HUMOR. GOTTIT?”

United StatesLondonBritainHarry PotterWizardsAmericanismOrlandoHogwartsTheme ParksBoarding SchoolWarner BrosDiagon AlleyBritishismGrand CentralKing S CrossMinistry Of MagicThierry Coup
Author:Boris Johnson
Create image

“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.”

ShouldKindChildrenTwoTogetherYoungFunFeltParentEatingDaughterSittingBuiltRoundsHaving FunParksSaturdayDaddyMerryBenchesPeanutsDisneylandChildren And ParentsAnimatorTwo DaughtersTheme ParksMerry Go RoundParks And RecreationSitting On The Bench
Author:Walt Disney
Create image

“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!"”

NeedsWellsLooksLittlesLongStoriesAmericaNovelGrowingWrittenHavensIntellectualPlanningParksThemeJustificationDystopianLimbsImprovisingForethoughtTheme Parks
Author:George Saunders
Create image

“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.”

DoneAmericaPastCultureSinTaxesOriginalsParksThemeNativeGood TimesNative AmericanHaving A Good TimeExoticPropsNorth AmericaOriginal SinAnthropologistsTheme Parks
Book:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Create image

“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.”

WayFirstsChildrenSaidReasonProblemParentClassMiddleAchieveGrewGrew UpRacismMy FamilyTheaterExcuseBitterParksThemeMiddle ClassNeighborhoodShieldsEducatorHamburgersMovie TheaterBirminghamPhdsMiddle Class FamilyTheme Parks
Author:Condoleezza Rice
Create image

“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!”

FirstsDifferentMomentsRememberFiveFourEventsMomFirst TimeDecidedDressesMy MomBrandsGiantsParksThemeThat MomentMy SisterBathroomRemember WhenBreakthroughBrand NewOutfitsOlder SisterTheme Parks
Author:Analeigh Tipton
Create image

“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.”

NeedsYearsDifferentTodayRealizingCompanyStepsYears AgoInternationalStudiosVideoShirtsParksThemeWheelsToysT ShirtTheme Parks
Author:Michael Uslan
Create image

“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.”

PeopleWorldWayPastFormEmotionInfluenceMajorsAncientSexualityExpectedFamiliarAttractiveParksThemeDesperateTrendsMuseumsDisappointedEgyptPackagesRenaissancePersonal RelationshipsAncient EgyptTheme Parks
Author:J. G. Ballard
Create image

“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.”

WorldMeanLittlesLongSometimesPiecesForgivingSorryUpsetParksThemeBottlesShoppingMilkCountrysideForgive MePubsSleepyDoorstepTheme ParksShopping Centers
Book:The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
Create image

“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.”

EarthPerfectSellsCirclesMealsParksThemeRaysMcdonaldsFast FoodDisneylandHamburgersWaltEthosFriesUnitingSynergyFrench FriesFull CircleTheme Parks
Author:Eric Schlosser
Create image

“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.”

MindSoulCommunityImaginationSpaceMiddleColdCitizensCrossesLibraryConsumersIslandsParksThemeHospitalsWhere You AreEmergenciesFestivalsExitRainyCathedralsTheme Parks
Author:Caitlin Moran
Create image

“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.”

FirstsBookShowsSeemsLeftLanguageMaterialsTvsSourceLifetimeComicParksThemeBreakfastCaptainsComic BookTv Shows1960sRemakesCerealForeign LanguageCrunchTheme ParksBreakfast CerealMascots
Author:Alan Moore
Create image

“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.”

IfsThinkingHeartMayChildrenBigsKidsYoungGrowsFeetGoes OnSticksParksThemeFloridaNephewNiecePedalsExcursionsTheme ParksMy NieceNiece And NephewChild At Heart
Author:John Barrowman
Create image