California Quotes · Page 30

“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”

— Rick Riordan

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of…

— Anonymous

If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're…

— Adam Ferrara

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this…

— Mark Twain

When I was a kid I had a ball in San Francisco because my Uncle Lou was a gripman on the California…

— Jackie Coogan

Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married.

— Samantha Ronson

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

— Max Boot

California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that -…

— Michael Pollan

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold…

— James Schuyler

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes…

— Hermann Goring

The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none…

— Alissa Quart

Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little…

— Jay Leno

One of course is to insure greater supply of energy for California's needs now and in the future in the sense that…

— George Deukmejian

Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order…

— David Mixner

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the…

— Catherine Crier

If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly…

— Marc Reisner

I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way,…

— Heavy D

“You know, I have to tell you"--I tried to make my voice bright to lighten the moo--"this ring of yours has got…

— Linda Gerber

Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often…

— Herb Boyd

The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn't exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the…

— Sam Shepard

Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter…

— David Remnick

We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening…

— Mark Hoppus

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator…

— George Lucas

I used to be on the Internet a lot, so all my friends on the Internet were from California.

— YBN Nahmir

Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle.

— Craig Kilborn

As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

— Cesar Chavez

I don't want my voice to ever be utilized in dehumanizing any California or American.

— Laphonza Butler

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

— Joss Whedon

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home,…

— Blake Shelton

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

— Craig Kilborn

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very…

— Edan Lepucki

“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was…

— Eve Babitz

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part…

— Gray Davis

All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

As weird as it is, as much as I love Southern California, the reality is I'm going to be somewhere else next…

— Kassim Osgood

Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.

— Ted Wheeler

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

— Peter Gould

“Maria, it sounds like he was insane. Rational people don't intentionally addict people. I feel sorry for those poor people who were…

— Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote

“Hey boys, come up here!" Lee's excited shout bounced from rock to rock down the gulch. "I've got all of California right…

— Phyllis Flanders Dorset