California Quotes · Page 21

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

— Mark Kurlansky

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

— Christine Blasey Ford

I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're…

— Jane Krakowski

“Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)”

— Myra Jolivet

Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

— Joan Didion

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every…

— Ashley Wagner

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a…

— Molly Ivins

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

— Scott Borchetta

I've seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there's no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on…

— Ruby Bridges

Before 'Grease,' John Travolta was a big star from 'Welcome Back Kotter'... but that's not where I met him. I met him…

— Didi Conn

I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this one company. One…

— Spike Jonze

Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via…

— Annalee Newitz

When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New…

— Wanda Sykes

The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree…

— Jack Kerouac

In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New…

— Amor Towles

The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many…

— Tamsin Egerton

Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the…

— Rick Remender

Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other…

— Charles Francis Richter

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is…

— Jandy Nelson

My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It…

— Keith Carradine

A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has…

— Peter Schiff

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

If I was going for the popular vote I would've won easily. But I would've been in California and New York. I…

— Donald Trump

The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem…

— David Brooks

The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.'

— Lucy Fry

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.

— Brad Hall

I am committed to doing the work in Washington to secure the funding needed to ensure clean water for current and future…

— Laphonza Butler

I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.

— Robert Englund

I was writing and playing in California for 11 years before I moved to Nashville.

— Brett Young

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

— John Darnielle

My dream car is a Saleen S7. It's made by Saleen in California; it's basically America's Ferrari.

— Kyle Busch

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

— Armie Hammer

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do…

— Meg Whitman

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

— Henry Hopper

California cars have no closer link to California climate impacts than do cars on the road in Japan or anywhere else in…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.

— Ron Paul

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

— Lois Frankel

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

— Gloria Swanson

“That place is turning into the Hotel California. You know, you can check in, but you can never leave.”

— Tracy Brogan

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

— Sheila Ballantyne