Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mick Taylor

It was a pleasant surprise in California to see people react to music they had never heard before. That was the most encouraging thing really.

I've always wanted to come to Los Angeles. California is known as an environmentally friendly state and LA is the car capital of the world. What better place to do bio-diesel than Los Angeles?

Texas had 25 commitments last summer. They will see a major, major effect next year. It will make things even easier for them in Texas, but it might open the door for a kid in California or might open the door for a kid in Florida.

Glenn Frey

Thank you everybody, and welcome to the Eagles California Tour, ... on a hot and sultry night in Salinas.

Ernest Gaines

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.

Chris Hayes

As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California`s water. Scientists say the state is at its driest point in half a millennium and as any Californians will tell you, it is not just their problem, it`s everyone`s problem.

Chris Hayes

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state`s first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

Chris Hayes

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.

In California we know we have two kinds of levees those that have failed and those that will fail.

In California we know we have two kinds of levees - those that have failed and those that will fail.

In California we know we have two kinds of levees -- those that have failed and those that will fail.

In California any type of death has to be disclosed if it's happened in the last three years.

In California alone, scientists estimate a pandemic could cause approximately 35 percent of the population to become ill.

Jackie Speier

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

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.

Jon Stewart

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

Stewart Brand

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Jimmy Carter

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Teena Marie

I'm from California, and still live in LA.

Neal Stephenson

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

Peter DeFazio

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

Joni Mitchell

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Joni Mitchell

Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

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.

Edan Lepucki

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

Frank Lloyd Wright

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

James Patterson

Fang: "There is one bright side to this." Max: "Yeah? What's that?" The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? Fang: *grins* You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much. Max: My shriek of appalled rage would probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.

Joe Eszterhas

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, Rob Reiner really deserves one.

Joan Didion

Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

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.