California Quotes · Page 19

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

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

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

I've been across the States - from Florida to California - and got my passport in 2019.

— Ben Shelton

“London on a gloomy and rainy day is still better than San Francisco on a bright and sunny day.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

— Walker Stapleton

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was…

— Patrick Dempsey

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on…

— Aaron Peirsol

We have a Muslim population which is better off economically, better engaged, and less drawn to the fight in ISIS. But as…

— Michael Leiter

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment…

— Douglas Coupland

I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In…

— Pico Iyer

Earlier tonight the second Republican debate took place here in California. With 10 men and only one woman, everyone thought they were…

— Conan O'Brien

All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters…

— Quentin Crisp

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and…

— Michael Lewis

Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave…

— Roger Ebert

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End…

— Upton Sinclair

I'm from Malibu, California. Once I tell people, they're like, 'Oh, of course you're from Malibu; that makes sense.' I guess I…

— Gigi Hadid

What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company…

— Donald Trump

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California.…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

— Bill Hader

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

— Ted Wheeler

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

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

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“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

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

— Peter Gould

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

— Kevin de Leon

“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

I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

— Cameron Dallas

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

— Alan Moore

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was…

— Michael Trevino

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

— Paul Mazursky

“To own an orange grove in Southern California is to live on the real gold coast of American agriculture.”

— Carey McWilliams

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

— Ben Lerner

I supported to reduce oil consumption in California by 50 percent, 50 percent in the next 15 years. They didn't even bother to show up.

— Jerry Brown