Quotes About Arcadia

#1. 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

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

Tom Stoppard

#4. 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

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

H.L. Mencken

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

Peter Sperling

#7. 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

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

Kate Atkinson

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Jen Campbell

#12. 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

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

Rosamund Hodge

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Lauren Groff

#18. 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

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

Nicolas Roeg

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

Andrew Ryan

#21. 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

#22. Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. Mickey Mantle was baseball.

Bob Costas

#24. I don't have to be what you want me to be.

Muhammad Ali

#25. 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

#26. Love is sweeping the country.

Ira Gershwin

#27. The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

Alcaeus

#28. America is one big maill with a country attached to it.

Ben Fountain

#29. 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

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

Philip Sidney

#31. How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Philip K. Dick

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

Jenn Bennett

#33. Only, the working-man dies in hospital when the last term of his stunted growth expires; whereas the man of the middle class is set upon living, and lives on, but in a state of idiocy. You

Honore De Balzac

#34. Slave labor," said Hermione, breathing hard through her nose. "That's what made this dinner. Slave labor." And she refused to eat another bite.

J.K. Rowling

#35. 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

#36. She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?

Austin Wright

#37. 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

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

Tom Stoppard