City Called Arcadia

Famous quotes containing the words city, called and/or arcadia:

    “A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”
    —Margaret Mead (1901–1978)

    “When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.”
    —Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)

    “To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)