Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joni Mitchell

Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they'll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they'll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they'll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they'll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they'll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.

Gray Davis

The great thing about California is, in every natural disaster we all work together ... we're all pulling in the same direction, trying to get people through the day,

Henry Rollins

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

You can't solve these problems by teleconferencing from California - he shouldn't dance around in California and let us do the dirty work here,

The forecast for California is mediocre at best; at worst we are liable to dip into another recession, ... at least 50% if not more.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This historic election has come about because there's a tremendous disconnect between the people of California and the leaders of California. We the people are doing our job -- working hard, raising our families and paying taxes. But the politicians are not doing their job.

Robert Klein

This is a historic step for the state of California in moving forward with the funding requirements of Proposition 71 and getting funds out to researchers.

This is a gut-shot not only to the housing industry but to the California homeowner,

Eric Idle

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

James Arness

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

Eric Ripert

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

Each store we put in generates $1 million a year for local residents. Each store employs six to eight people. California is giving us a hard time, so we're focusing on places other than California. The losers from this legislation are the people of California.

Everyone in California is thinking about him, and that's where the studios are.

Kurt Busch

Everybody wants to win Daytona. There's only one guy that's happy when we leave and that's the winner. California is really where the season starts.

Reggie Wayne

It's something you can't prepare for. It's like in California when you get an earthquake, all you can do is try to take cover.

Steve Fossett

I started mountain climbing with the troop in Southern California when I was 12. I thought I'd do it indefinitely, but then I found other challenges.

Ayelet Waldman

They can be either a freshman at UC San Diego with one too many piercings or a far-too-perfect Southern California mother.

It's looking pretty good. The storm has moved on to the coast, Southern California - past us.

It makes perfect sense that the most stringent voting system requirements would be coming out of California because that's been the source of the greatest criticism of electronic voting.

Greg Biffle

It's frustrating. It kind of drains you, but I've got to be optimistic about our season. It's unfortunate because this is how we make our living, too. It's a big payday, big PR to come and win a race like California Speedway and lots of points on the line.

When we're going good we tend to keep going back to the same place (in this case California Pizza Kitchen) every Friday.

Mickey Rourke

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

Karl Marx

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Kamala Harris

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Krista Allen

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.

Joseph Brodsky

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's really a bit grand, but if a German can afford it, I can afford it.

Kenneth Lay

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

Kenneth Lay

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

Kenneth Lay

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

Kay Redfield Jamison

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

Kenny Guinn

As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

She lives in California and grew up in Boston. She flew out here after she was diagnosed and underwent chemotherapy at Children's until last May. She had to stay in the hospital the entire time.