“Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.” PeopleFunnyUsedWaitingWhiteChangedHollywoodTownsUsed To BeCaliforniaEnvelopesPowder Author:Jay Leno
“I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.” TownsCaliforniaSmall TownMaryland Author:Bea Arthur
“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.” LooksImportantWantedLeftTownsCaliforniaMaine Author:Patrick Dempsey
“I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.” GovernmentParentTechnologyGrewNormalGrew UpTownsRaisedCaliforniaCowboyPhysicistLaboratory Author:Cynthia Breazeal
“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.” PastFilmStepsBuiltAreasTownsCaliforniaLos AngelesInvitations1930sCapesCape Town Author:Robert Towne
“I'm not ready to pack my bags and leave the town and my business that I love and my kids that I love more than anything and pack them up and come to Hollywood. I love California. I love Hollywood. But I'm not ready to uproot what I believe in to come to Hollywood.” BelieveKidsI BelieveReadyHollywoodTownsI Believe InCaliforniaBagsPacksNot Ready Author:Dwight Henry
“When you screw up, you got to pay the price. Shoot up a supermarket, you go to jail. Ride a motorcycle without a helmet, permanent brain damage and in California you're getting a ticket. Too chatty on a date with my dad, well, he'll push you in front of a cross town bus. Of course, you know, I'm speaking metaphorically. My dad will push you in front of any bus.” KnowsWellsCoursesPayBrainFrontsDadCrossesTownsMy DadPermanentCaliforniaDamageJailBusTicketsScrewsMotorcycleSupermarketsPay The PriceScrew UpsHelmet Author:Christopher Titus
“In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.” IfsBodyWould BeYoungSidesCitiesTownsBlessedDelightRadicalMake SenseBridgesCaliforniaCulinaryChocolateWormsTruckInevitabilityFragilityCreeksSacramentoFragility Of LifeInevitability Of Death Author:Cornel West
“I just got back from Hawaii on Saturday, and it's so depressing how quickly all the stresses and the stressful energy of L.A. comes bombarding back. Everyone's in a rush, you're annoying everyone, get out of their way, everyone's most important than you are, has got somewhere more important to be - very draining town. But I still love it in many ways. I wouldn't leave California. I think it's a fantastic state, if you can't be in Hawaii all the time.” IfsThinkingWayStillsImportantStatesEnergyStressTownsFantasticCaliforniaAnnoyingDepressingSaturdayHawaiiStressfulDraining Author:Natalie Maines
“When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.” SaidMatterPresidentNatureLossMembersBirdTownsPressesUnionsOilBeachCaliforniaSenateFalsehoodCommitteesQuotationsCoastPublicityColorfulAmazementCalifornia Coast Author:Malcolm Forbes
“My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.” MovingMotherSonBandDaughterTownsCaliforniaMy DaughterBrooklynDrummerOldest SonYoungest Son Author:Herbie Mann
“My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.” YearsThreeFatherHappenedTownsIllCaliforniaThree YearsSmall TownBankers Author:Warren Christopher