Famous quotes containing the words city, called and/or arcadia:
“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman:
If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole
world.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“Thatcher: Youre too old to call me Mr. Thatcher, Charles.
Charles Foster Kane: Youre too old to be called anything else. You were always too old.”
—Orson Welles (19151985)
“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. Its forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where theres a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)