Famous Quotes & Sayings

I am very happy that my dream of playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers was realized. It will be a difficult race in spring training to make the opening-day roster.

Lou Ferrigno

I am proud to be able to do my part as part of the team and to help these brave and dedicated deputy sheriffs in keeping Los Angeles County safe for the people who live, work and visit here.

Jack Valenti

I am proud that the entertainment industry and the citizens of Los Angeles turned out in full force to support a long overdue national memorial to Dr. King.

Nicolas Berggruen

I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.

I decided to go back out to Los Angeles to become a certified Tae Bo Fitness Program instructor.

Jay McInerney

I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.

I'd rather be in Los Angeles than any city in the world. In many regards, we're one of the best prepared in the nation in terms of experience and based on previous natural disasters and the like.

That is a lot of dollars. We care. I don't know if people understand what it is like living in Los Angeles compared with other college cities. It is expensive. Sometimes it gets tough for some players. I think if something like this, a fair stipend for everyone, was done, it would be appreciated. But players are careful when they talk about this. It's a tough call and I'm glad I'm not the one making the final one. My vote would be to do something, give something, anything.

Jamie McCourt

Vin Scully is synonymous with Dodger baseball and has been for generations of fans in Los Angeles and around the world. He's an icon in Los Angeles and we're thrilled that he'll continue to be the voice of the Dodgers for years to come." ()

There had not been an L.A. high school that had won the festival in years. It was always Beverly Hills. The city of Los Angeles brought me and all of my students down to City Hall and honored us. It turned things around, and it started to be the cool thing to be in drama, especially since the football team hadn't won anything.

John Jay

It's definitely not your father's Los Angeles of 1955. It's one of those ironies that LAPD, in a city that's pretty hip and sophisticated, is still somewhat trapped in a time capsule,

Eli Broad

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Spencer Boldman

I've actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

Ciara Bravo

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.

Ginger Baker

In 1968, I was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a Shelby Cobra with three gorgeous young birds. Suddenly, the radio program was interrupted to report that I'd just been found in my hotel room dead from an overdose.

Anita Defrantz

In Los Angeles (site of the 1984 Olympics), it worked very well.

In Los Angeles once, we lost 39 footballs in a game. We were one football away from asking for one back.

Lisa Cholodenko

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

Rene Russo

In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.

Dylan Penn

I'm not a big fan of working out. Living in Los Angeles makes it much easier for me; I don't ever have an excuse not to be outside.

William Friedkin

The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.

The King incident was a spontaneous reaction to a middle-of-the-night situation. I think Rampart is worse, ... Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.

Jason Lee

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has been made aware of the investigation.

Jerry Reinsdorf

The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.