Los angeles Quote by Michael Azerrad

“Los Angeles was the most glamorous, tackiest, most elegant, seediest, most clever, dumbest, most beautiful, ugliest, forward-looking, retro-thinking, altruistic, self-absorbed, deal-savvy, politically ignorant, artistic-minded,…

— Dean Koontz

“I expected Los Angeles to be slick and modern, but overall it had a rundown look and feel to it. Sort of like Denver.…

— Gary Reilly

“This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight…

— Dean Koontz

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem…

— Carolyn Hart

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

— Joseph Barbera

“We were not interested in making life better for some some people. We wanted everyone to thrive and accomplish their dreams in Los Angeles:…

— Richard J. Riordan

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

— H. L. Mencken

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

“It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination.…

— Joan Didion

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

“Los Angeles in 1912 was a sprawling flatland stretching between the ocean and the mountains. Within a thirty-five-mile radius, there were forty incorporated towns,…

— Cari Beauchamp

Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

— Ed Begley, Jr