Xanadu Musical Quotes & Sayings

Own nothing. Know nothing. Be nothing.
Because then you can do anything. — Jay Kristoff

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. — Jack Nance

Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders? — Ted Rall

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business. — Greg Brenneman

The infinite resource of creativity has and always will solve problems. — Brandon Mullan

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. — Fredrik Bajer

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

It did not occur to me at the time that her radiance had a spiritual dimension, owing nothing to the values of the temporal world. — Jennifer Worth

I'm no crazier than anyone else. I love life the same as most people - what else have we got that's real? I like to take a good picture; I like to wake up in love; I like to read a good book; I like to travel without many plans; I like a shifting mix of the expected and the unexpected; I like to swim in rivers and oceans; I like to walk; I like to see sunlight coming through trees; I like old cites and snow and live music and all the kooky things I've been doing these last few days. All of it, the good and the bad and the stuff in between. I'm not saying I haven't made mistakes. I'm not saying I haven't been rude or cavalier or predictable. I'm only saying that if you asked me, I'd say, Yeah, I'm too young to die. — Michael Jarvis