Browsing Topic Best Theme Parks Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.