California Quotes - Page 6

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford.

For quite some time, I have wanted to live on the central coast of California and get more involved at Cal Poly, my alma mater; spend more time with my wife and sons; travel to interesting parts of the world; and something I have wanted to do for years-- finish the requirements for my pilot's license.

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

It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.

In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.