California Quotes

• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

  Edward Abbey

  Travel, Fun, Crazy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Europe, Jersey, London

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• Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

  Alison Lurie

  Past, Europe, Southern

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  Oscar Nunez

  Beautiful

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• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Done, Ifs

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• In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, America, Southern

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• California is always in my mind.

  David Hockney

  Mind

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• When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Oklahoma, States

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• All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

  Robert Benton

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Fog, Smog

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• You haven't lived until you've died in California

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, Stewardship

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• Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Giving, Hollywood

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Orange

  American Magazine Dec. 1945, p. 120

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• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, God, Brain

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

  Robert Vaughn

  College, Loser, Los Angeles

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• California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

  J. B. Priestley

  Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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• In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

  Helmut Newton

  House, Backyards, Looks

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• In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Golf, Play

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Rain, Weather

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• I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Space, Hollywood

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• She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Lingerie, Hollywood

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.47, Ballantine Books

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• As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Class, Numbers

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