Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ross MacDonald

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure

Ethan Nadelmann

What happened in California provides a powerful model. It is extremely likely that there will be other prop 36-like initiatives in other major states in 2002 and 2004.

What California has done with paper trails has made a difference to the nation, and what California decides to do with them could make a difference nationally as well.

What California does could be sacrificial for no purpose.

This is the only store in California with all you need to make any type of mosaic art.

This is why it's so important to us to try to get the Klamath restored. We're talking about most of Oregon and California being shut down by this.

They're really popular. Thai food in Southern California is like Chinese food in New York -- everybody gets it take-out.

They're a very good NAIA team. All the Southern California teams are good; that's just how it is.

Douglass North

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Carolyn See

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

In 2006 we'll have a lot of players coming up from (Class A Advanced) San Jose, where they won the California League Championship. If they can do that here it would be the icing on the cake.

If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.

If you're not wanted in one neighborhood, California is big enough for retailers to find someplace else where they will be welcome.

I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.

J. C. Watts

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

Isabel Allende

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

Glenn Frey

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

How California decides to (build these plants) should be on the mind of everybody in Silicon Valley.

In a sense, the state of California is leasing race dates or meets to the track operators, and we need to hold them responsible in order to protect and secure the racing industry in California.

I'm not trying to pick a fight with Southern California agencies,

In the last couple of days, prices have been going up by 2 or 3 cents in a 24-hour period. This is likely the same type of rapid price increase that has happened in Southern California every spring of this decade.

Frank Murkowski

In the event California cannot repay generators for this power, the federal government is going to have to meet that obligation, because this was an order of the federal government,

In the dugout you see some of the facial expressions up close and you see that intensity. Don't be confused by their laid-back, California personality. These guys compete.

Mary Bono

In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) area.

I remember one of the first things we saw in California was a woman in a fishnet top with no bra. Woody hated California. The state could have fallen in the ocean and he wouldn't have cared. . . . Woody just wanted to kick . . . and go home.

His big tournament is this summer and that's the national championships. That's where you get noticed nationally. Everybody in Oregon knows who Denny is, and most of Washington, Idaho, Nevada and California ? they know him here, but to get nationally known happens in Fargo.

California will be a leader in the next great high-tech growth industry solar energy. This long-term, visionary policy will save ratepayers money, create high-paying jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

California will be a leader in the next great high-tech growth industry - solar energy. This long-term, visionary policy will save ratepayers money, create high-paying jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

California will be a leader in the next great high-tech growth industry -- solar energy. This long-term, visionary policy will save ratepayers money, create high-paying jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same.

California really came out and played some good defense. They didn't give us many open shots.

California officials are especially concerned about capacity problems in the summertime.