Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is stunning that a senator from California would just give up on the idea of preventing unauthorized people from taking American jobs.

Steve Fossett

I started mountain climbing with the troop in Southern California when I was 12. I thought I'd do it indefinitely, but then I found other challenges.

Ayelet Waldman

They can be either a freshman at UC San Diego with one too many piercings or a far-too-perfect Southern California mother.

They were all within the University of California and it was still difficult because each has different cultures, different personalities and different rules. The fact that these four institutions have put this together I think is a wonderful signal. I'm tremendously impressed with the effort that must have gone into this.

Marcus Ginyard

It was just coming out and totally outplaying a team. We got outplayed in California and that's unacceptable, so we had to come back and play this hard tonight.

It makes perfect sense that the most stringent voting system requirements would be coming out of California because that's been the source of the greatest criticism of electronic voting.

Floyd Landis

It's gone quite well. I've done three races, and won two of them. I won the Tour of California in February, and then I also won the Paris-Nice a week after the Tour California.

Greg Biffle

It's frustrating. It kind of drains you, but I've got to be optimistic about our season. It's unfortunate because this is how we make our living, too. It's a big payday, big PR to come and win a race like California Speedway and lots of points on the line.

It's high time for the 'Terminator' to tell California families where he stands on AB849.

For about three years now, California has been relying on construction as its major source of job growth.

It's looking pretty good. The storm has moved on to the coast, Southern California - past us.

Jonah Lehrer

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.

Jon Stewart

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

Pete Wilson

It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.

Mother Jones

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

Emily Ratajkowski

The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here meeting with studios and auditioning.

Jimmy Fallon

The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.

Joel Silver

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

Linus Torvalds

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.

Molly Ringwald

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Minka Kelly

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

Gray Davis

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Gray Davis

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California.

Maria Shriver

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

Paul Kantner

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

Patrick Dempsey

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

John Scalzi

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

Joseph Brodsky

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

Mike Huckabee

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Mary Roach

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kenny Guinn

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.