Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oh, their Rafael of the dead Madonnas, / Oh, their Dante of the dread Inferno, / Wrote one song - and in my brain I sing it, / Drew one angel - borne, see, on my bosom!

No, I was not fired. I don't believe it was in my best interest or the best interests of the Los Angeles Dodgers to be in the dugout (in 2006) as a lame duck manager.

It seems to me that Los Angeles is a city filled with dreamers.

Mark McFarland

It was the experience of a lifetime to fly with the Blue Angels and unlike anything I've felt before.

It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

It was a victory for Angela Merkel and the grand coalition in Berlin.

Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.

Rich Hill

It's been awesome, man. It's changed so much for us exposure-wise, especially here in San Diego. There are a lot of great players here who used to go up (Interstate) 5 to go to school (in the Los Angeles area), and we're trying to keep them home. This validates what we're doing, getting those players and winning.

It's pretty bad. Large districts in general are doing less well and Los Angeles is toward the bottom of that list.

They're known sometimes as a guardian angel to their fellow marines and to watch over and protect them.

John Hammond

They're destroying a big part of Los Angeles history. I'll be very sad to see it go.

You're going to have containers coming from every terminal, not just the Port of Los Angeles but the Port of Long Beach, ... I think maglev would really be pushing it.

Bill Clinton

This is by far the largest group of radio and television correspondents ever assembled this far from a Los Angeles courtroom.

Mickey Rivers

If you can stop him, you got a better chance, ... If you do that, the Angels aren't as hard to beat.

In the eyes of many common residents now, doctors are not angels who save the dying and treat injuries, but enemies who always want patients to buy more medicines and undergo unnecessary examinations.

These things I warmly wish for you Someone to love, some work to do, A bit o' sun, a bit o' cheer, And a guardian angel always near

James L. Buckley

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

The joy you get from helping other people is hard to come by. Once you're involved with Angel Flight, it becomes infectious.

The jobs are open, which is something you usually don't see this late into the spring. Today was good for four batters, but then in the second inning, I started falling behind hitters, and the Angels can hurt you when they know you have to come over the plate.

John Cusack

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

Tony Gwynn

I had the Angels game Wednesday, then the Little League World Series,

I'm very grateful to Dave and appreciative of his 29 years of service to the Los Angeles Kings. He has been loyal to the Kings sweater from day one and continues to be. We have offered him an opportunity to remain with the organization in a capacity to be determined. That decision is his and will be dependent on his discussions in the future with our new leadership.

Jason Lewis

I'm wary of the whole Los Angeles scene. I'm a California kid, but there's a difference between California and Los Angeles. L.A. is urban. California is restorative.

Rhys Ifans

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

I'm surrounded by angels when I come back here.

Jeffrey Wright

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion.

I lived in an apartment in Los Angeles that had six stone stairs. I was terrified I would fall, but the owners wouldn't put up a railing.

Reggie Miller

I'll be at Yankee Stadium, in the lions' den, in Angel attire, representing my team,

Cindy Sheehan

I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying, 'Well, you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths are going to make the world a better place,' and it's up to us to make sure that it does.

Jacob Artist

I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

Alexandra Shipp

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.

Robert Stromberg

I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It's a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing.

I moved here from South Central Los Angeles looking for a better place for my kids,