California Quotes

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California

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.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

I'm the worst surfer in California. My balance is off from boxing.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.

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

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

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.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

I'm healthier in California, probably a little happier, maybe.

I forget how beautiful and calm California is. It's not so much about the place, but also the age that I came to the place and, well, other things. New York is hard.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.

Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

My accountant tells me I can't be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

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.

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

You can't have everything, even in California

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

Once I'm done, I'm done. I'm going to California.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

It's fun to be in California. The police are kind of weird here. They ask you stupid questions. 'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Because I have pot in the glove compartment?

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

I remain California-bound

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.