Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.
cold earth since vital
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
believe centre earnest error intention listening lofty mad massive scientific truth
Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin?
carried closed deal doubt explored forcible hardly narrow roughly sea sort whom
This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I shivered all over. Whom had we to deal with? No doubt some new sort of pirates, who explored the sea in their own way. Hardly had the narrow panel closed upon me, when I was enveloped in darkness.
eye black able
We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.
masters teach
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
achieve capable man men whatever
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve
condemned faculties gone horrors persons simply
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
available final frontiers further humankind journeys quest readily satisfied space
How much further can we go? What are the final frontiers in this quest for travel? Will humankind only be satisfied when journeys into space become readily available and affordable?
use argument force
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
fifty bullets cows
A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
war cities clubs
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
important matter doe
An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet.
spring glasses water
I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!