Quotes About Xanadu

#1. All he cared about was that he had found his Xanadu and she was indeed heaven sent.

Virginia Alison

#2. I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

Douglas Carter Beane

#3. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. I asked him at the clambake in 2001, at the writers' retreat Xanadu, what he'd done during the war, which he called 'civilization's second unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide,

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

Ted Nelson

#6. I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

Olivia Newton-John

#7. Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu:
All our dream-worlds may come true.
Fairy lands are fearsome too.
As I wander far from view
Read, and bring me home to you.

Salman Rushdie

#8. How did I find myself here? Me - the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

Fadia Faqir

#9. I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Douglas Carter Beane

#10. I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

Kathleen Raine

#11. To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics ... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.

Michael Beck

#12. Scarlet shut the door behind her, leaning against it as she responded. "I came because you have been in great pain."
"Yes. And because of my great pain you still live. It seems my isolation is good for your wellbeing."
"The strength of my pulse has little to do with the health of my heart.

Chelsea Fine

#13. Perhaps the funniest example is that of the Rev. Milton Barfoot, who said to Dan's brother, in apparently honest bafflement, "But, isn't Dan afraid of hell?" No, Reverend, Dan doesn't believe in hell anymore, that's one of the things about being an atheist, you see.

Dan Barker

#14. Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

Angela Carter

#15. I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Jean Webster

#16. A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

John C. Maxwell

#17. Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Rem Koolhaas

#18. There is no one in the world that can best understand you the way you understand yourself. It only take you to make the best of you.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#19. Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood.

Chaim Potok

#20. To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Delmore Schwartz

#21. To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Marsha Sinetar

#22. I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

Lynn Flewelling

#23. The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Chris Murray