Aim Quote by Louis Adamic

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them…

— Christopher Hitchens

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must…

— Christopher Isherwood

When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You think of…

— Sophie Lowe

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if…

— Gary Oldman

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

Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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 an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket…

— Martine Syms

“Los Angeles wasn’t a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.”

— Michael Azerrad

I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of…

— Dan Gilroy

Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be…

— Lykke Li