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Quotes About California

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Having served as California's top elections official, I've been fighting back against Trump's 'Big Lie' and conspiracy theories about the integrity of our elections for years.
~ Alex Padilla
It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
~ David Letterman
I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working and lucky to be working.
~ Scott Eastwood
I'm in my early thirties. I live in Los Angeles, California. I'm an artist.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.
~ Sid Sriram
While no state has more at stake in immigration policy than California, the entire nation stands to benefit from thoughtful immigration reform.
~ Alex Padilla
Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
~ Colin Hay
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.
~ Roseanne Barr
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
~ Ross MacDonald
If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It's the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us.
~ Ross MacDonald
They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through the mountains, cut down a thousand years of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted. There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
~ Ross MacDonald
In fact, on Duveen's last visit to H. E.'s California mansion, San Marino, just before H. E. died, the host didn't have enough cash on hand to pay for the freight-car load of merchandise in the guest's caravan. Duveen accepted instead some Los Angeles real estate, a commodity of which H. E. was then the largest owner.
~ S.N. Behrman
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
~ Kenneth G. Wilson
The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'
~ Conan O'Brien
Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.
~ Linus Torvalds
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
~ Paul Mazursky
Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to have one glass of a perfectly chilled California Chardonnay.
~ Anne Lamott
Willa said, "What…?" Then she said, "You're starting your job this June, though." "Right." "You want to get married in two months?" "Or it could be three, if you need more time to plan the wedding," he said. "You mean before I finish school?" "You can finish in California." "But at Kinney I have a full scholarship!" "So? You could get a scholarship in California, too.
~ Anne Tyler
she wants to wait till she graduates although me, I'm thinking this summer would be good; I mean, she could finish school in California just as well as at Kinney, so I'm hoping to talk her around, but in any case
~ Anne Tyler
Sheila Finch was born and raised in London, England. She did graduate work in medieval literature and linguistics at Indiana University. Dragged to California in 1962 by her (then) husband, she fell in love with the state and has stayed there ever since. She taught fiction writing and the literature of science fiction for thirty years at El Camino College, in Torrance, California. She lives in Long Beach with a cat and a retired racing greyhound.
~ Sheila Finch
Life is the longest death in California.
~ Rufus Wainwright
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.
~ Kevin Starr
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.
~ Krista Allen