Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ishmael Reed

Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.

Krista Allen

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

Kenneth Lay

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

Kenneth Lay

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

Kenneth Lay

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

Kay Redfield Jamison

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

Jonathan Kozol

There's a reason why politicians and the pedagogic establishment keep churning out these lists of new 'how to fix it' plans, ... It's because they don't dare speak about the central point. It is not that we don't know what works in public education.... All we have to do is go out and visit Glencoe, Ill., Scarsdale, N.Y., or any of the wealthiest districts in California and we find out right away.

Ralph Merkle

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Michael Pollan

California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.

John Steinbeck

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

John Steinbeck

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

Mort Sahl

You haven't lived until you've died in California

Meg Whitman

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

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.

Michael Lewis

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

The case in California wasn't full fledged deregulation.

Neal Stephenson

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

John Sexton

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

John Robbins

In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.

Larry Flynt

You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.

The guys who ran well in California will do the same this week. There is a huge correlation there, and most of the teams use the same setup.

Gray Davis

The great thing about California is, in every natural disaster we all work together ... we're all pulling in the same direction, trying to get people through the day,

Henry Rollins

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

Helmut Newton

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

Kevin Starr

The earthquake cleared out one San Francisco -- which was the dominant place in California -- and replaced it with another. It accelerated the modernization of California.

The forecast for California is mediocre at best; at worst we are liable to dip into another recession, ... at least 50% if not more.

The Cardinals (brought me to the area). It's really close to home for my wife and I, which is California. It was close to family and a lot of people were able to come see my games. I was able to go to California whenever I really wanted, which was a different story than Boston.

Tom McClintock

This is a great day for California. ... In response to a common danger, the people of California rose to their duties and ordered a new direction for our state," ()

This house in California would be $800,000 easy,

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This historic election has come about because there's a tremendous disconnect between the people of California and the leaders of California. We the people are doing our job -- working hard, raising our families and paying taxes. But the politicians are not doing their job.

Robert Klein

This is a historic step for the state of California in moving forward with the funding requirements of Proposition 71 and getting funds out to researchers.

This is a gut-shot not only to the housing industry but to the California homeowner,

Eric Idle

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.