Ancient Quote by Frederick Lenz

I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right…

— Hedi Slimane

“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body…

— Plato

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People…

— Michael Connelly

I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a…

— Dan Gilroy

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

— Joseph Barbera

Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts…

— Dakota Johnson

“The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere…

— Benjamin R. Smith

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my…

— Michael Light

I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from;…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up…

— Bonnie McKee

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

— Tom Hanks