Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Rivers

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Toni Tennille

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.

Craig Kilborn

California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

Bea Arthur

I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

Since renovating this facility, it has been our mission to offer fans in Northern California the widest variety of motor racing action,

Most of the wine produced in Northern California was industrial.

Gigi Hadid

I'm always tan and blonde and don't really fit into New York. I'm a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.

Tyrone Willingham

We have quite a few players from California so it makes it easier for their families to get there and see them play,

The fact that natural gas prices are competitive in California has to do with the lasting effects of the California energy crisis, which has continued to keep electrical prices high.

Ben Harper

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Library values are like real estate in Southern California - they generally go up every year.

Many students in California have not been given a fair opportunity to learn the material on the exam.

Bobby McFerrin

So I went to California State University, the composition department, and I studied composition and orchestration and things like that.

So many seats in California are safe, and that's true nationally, too. So the opportunities for the out-of-power party to gain (seats in Congress) is really not that great. Most observers would say that only a few seats could change hands.

Brad Paisley

When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.

What you see is major Democratic elected officials in the state of California supporting this Republican governor,

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

The question has to be asked, 'What's not going to happen so the California emissions can happen?'

Steven Taylor

The only court in which these California rights ... can be enforced is this court.

Greg Boyle

We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it.

Timothy Hutton

I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with friends. I'd just finished filming my first movie, 'Ordinary People,' but I didn't know whether acting was what I wanted to do with my life.

When we're going good we tend to keep going back to the same place (in this case California Pizza Kitchen) every Friday.

Kamala Harris

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

We are optimistic and pleased with where the governor stands with California voters. He looks forward to continuing to talk to Californians about issues important to them.

Adam Levine

I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am. But I live in California, where it's always warm, so why not?

Greg Biffle

We'd love to sweep California. I'd love to get back in Victory Lane; I don't care where it's at. We're not taking the same car we won with back to California. We're taking a better car, a car we've won a lot of races in and we feel like we're gonna be a threat to win at California again.

Tom Brokaw

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

Peter Lynch

People were writing off California a couple of years ago, now they have a massive surplus. Canada is running its first surplus in 20 years and Mexico is doing well. Wouldn't you have been shocked if someone told you that the U.S. would have been running a surplus?

Nobody can complain we're going to Texas or California too much to sign players. That makes 41 players we've signed from here, and 35 of them are within an hour's drive.

Rand Paul

One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

I was going to be a media director for a school system and had job offers in California and Chicago. When George (St. John) was nearing retirement age, he made me an offer to purchase the business.

Gray Davis

My friends, this was a massive effort ranging over 180 miles in six counties, probably the worst fires in California history,