Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at…

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

— Wright Morris

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

— Alan Abel

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

— Kamala Harris

The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

— Sam Hinton

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

— Joan Didion

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

— David Swanson

When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

— Pamela Nicholson

Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you've generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

— Oprah Winfrey

The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

— Kevin de Leon

While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

— David Frum

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back…

— Carson Daly

“God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating…

— Laura Ruby

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

— Wanda Jackson

My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned…

— David F. Swensen