Quotes About California

Maynard Solomon. Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2004

Jonas registered his blood pressure rising. "First off, the lagoon was never intended to be a habitat for a six-foot predator; it was designed to accommodate pregnant Humpback whales migrating south along the California coast who could not reach Baja before birthing their young.

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.

I was married to someone who had more money than me, but because I was the stronger earner and we lived in California - a shocking thing slapped me in the face when we divorced and I had to end up paying him my earnings.

Oklahoma is my home. It's definitely slower paced than California.

If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.

Growing up in California, I grew up a JT Snow fan.

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

I love California; everything is so artificial.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

My friend also noted that it was harder to meet girls online here in blue-state California, where it seemed "Where do you stand politically?" had become the question most frequently asked by females, replacing the previous: "How tall are you?

The Exodus scenes were filmed in the sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, and DeMille transported hundreds of Orthodox Jews from New York, because he believed that "in appearance and in their deep feeling of the significance of the Exodus, they would give the best possible performance as the Children of Israel." But on their first day on set, the extras were forced to fast because the commissary served ham for dinner.

in partnership with Ché Ahn and Harvest Rock Church of Pasadena, California, geared toward the 18 to 25 generation.

To own an orange grove in Southern California is to live on the real gold coast of American agriculture.

On entering Southern California, the excursion trains made special stops to permit the tourists to visit Smiley Heights in Redlands, to lunch at the Mission Inn.

The idea, so current in our time, that Southern California is peopled by idlers, oldsters, playboys, and crackpots.

It is worth noting that the writers who have most vividly captured the feel of the California landscape have been native sons, like John Steinbeck, or long residents like Robinson Jeffers.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

My view was, if I didn't like Boulder, I'd keep going west, except I never really wanted to live in the Bay Area.

As a kid growing up in California, I collected autographs.