Xanadu Quotes

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)
I sank Atlantis," he said, "personally. It was about three years ago. And God! it was lovely! It was all ivory towers and golden minarets and silver balconies. There were bridges of opal, and crimson pennants and a milk-white river flowing between lemon-colored banks. There were jade steeples, and trees as old as the world tickling the bellies of clouds, and ships in the great sea-harbor of Xanadu, as delicately constructed as musical instruments, all swaying with the tides. The twelve princes of the realm held court in the dozen-pillared Coliseum of the Zodiac, to listen to a Greek tenor sax play at sunset.
Roger Zelazny
The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu.
Jeff Lynne
After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!
Ted Nelson
Cthelll is the terrestrial inner nightmare, nocturnal ocean, Xanadu: the anorganic metal-body trauma-howl of the earth (...) [P]lutonic science slides continuously into schizophrenic delirium. Fast forward seismology and you hear the earth scream.
Nick Land
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
A place where nobody dared to go the love that we came to know They call it Xanadu.
Jeff Lynne
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
Ted Nelson