In Arcadia Quotes

#1. He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.

Lauren Groff

#2. I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

Rufus Sewell

#3. People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

Rufus Sewell

#4. Confound these ancestors ... They've stolen our best ideas!

Ben Jonson

#5. 'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

Tom Stoppard

#6. Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears

Philip Sidney

#7. And perhaps that was where the trouble began. Arcadia was greatly blessed, and sooner or later, every blessing has a price.

Rosamund Hodge

#8. So ... "he whispered huskily in my ear, "we've discovered that you can arouse me." He demonstrated this fact by pressing harder against me, just in case I'd forgotten. "However, we don't know about you. And there is the small matter of Heka.

Jenn Bennett

#9. Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)

Jen Campbell

#10. If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

Carolyn Chute

#11. It's one thing to study war
and another to live the warrior's life.
- Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.

Steven Pressfield

#12. Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.

L. Frank Baum

#13. I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

Mae West

#14. Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

John Hurt

#15. The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

Alcaeus

#16. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Dave Eggers

#17. Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia

Tom Stoppard

#18. He gathered me closer, kissed my neck, then spoke in a low voice next to my ear. I figure, see, if you find yourself getting more attached to the two of us than you planned, maybe you won't think about picking up and leaving to start another life somewhere else.

Jenn Bennett

#19. On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.

James Wolcott

#20. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past. She

Kate Atkinson

#21. The fatter we are, the more likely we are to get cancer and the more likely we are to become demented as we age.

Gary Taubes

#22. Arcadia is one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in all of Arizona, and I love living here.

Peter Sperling

#23. Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

H.L. Mencken

#24. Home ... wasn't Egerton Gardens, wasn't even Fox Corner. Home was an idea, and like Arcadia it was lost in the past.

Kate Atkinson

#25. Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.

Tom Riley

#26. Life is a gift. Enjoy the 'present' with gratitude!

Wendy Sue Noah

#27. It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Ed Stoppard

#28. It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

Tom Stoppard

#29. Bind Merrimoth," he finally said, "and I'll do that think you like later."
"It's not like my power reacts to the reward system," I said, then added, "What thing?"
The corner of his mouth quirked. "On the chair."
"You mean the thing you like?"
"We both like," he corrected. "Win-win.

Jenn Bennett

#30. I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and I suddenly thought, 'It feels a bit weird to go from a New York stage to Manchester University.' It didn't quite feel right.

Bel Powley

#31. Dreamers must dream on
as long as the nightmare wakes them up
to greet with a bucketful of reality

Munia Khan

#32. If men could fit stars in their pockets, the sky would be empty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Marguerite Young

#34. It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing ... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Tom Stoppard

#35. I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

Samantha Bond

#36. When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

William Hazlitt

#37. Prayer is the preview of God's action.

Mark Dever

#38. Bit believes the treats' chemical afterburn is what the world beyond Arcadia must taste like.

Lauren Groff

#39. Oh, really? Is that why he's hot and bothered for Arcadia here?" Kar Yee tossed an accusatory glance my way. She was well aware that honesty wasn't one of my strong suits. "Probably," Jupe confirmed. "My dad says he likes her so much that if she kicked him in the balls, he'd just thank her.

Jenn Bennett

#40. Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Nicolas Roeg

#41. God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.

Andrew Ryan

#42. Arcadia," Lon's voice said from my phone. "Who is this?" I teased.
"You can't take my son on a date." "I didn't ask him. He asked me." "He stole my cell and called without permission." "Sounds like a personal problem to me." A low growling noise came out of the phone.

Jenn Bennett

#43. Maybe it involved a woman. Oh, maybe even a nun - ooh! Wouldn't that be scandalous?" "Indeed, but no.

Jenn Bennett

#44. Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Leonard Bernstein