California Quotes - Page 16

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  Karen O

  Space, Relaxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

  Nick Offerman

  Years, Two, Tree

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• I'm a typical California boy.

  Gary Lockwood

  Boys, Typical

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• How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Running, Netflix, Done

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cassandra Peterson Talks Elvira's Movie Macabre" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2011.

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• I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

  Edward Ruscha

  Taken, Knowing, House

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• I like California a lot more than New York these days.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  New York, These Days

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• All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

  Mary Roach

  Clothes, Oakland, Pressure

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• There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

  Wayne Rogers

  Running, Canada, Cry

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• In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Men, Names, People

  Interview with Colleen Long, onlineathens.com. October 31, 2003.

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• I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

  Hedi Slimane

  Strong, Interesting, Creative

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• It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Years

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• The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Winning, Oil

  "Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

  Ruth Simmons

  School, Boss, Southern

  "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

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• It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

  Christine Taylor

  Dream, New York, School

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

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• I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

  Thuy Trang

  Flying, Want, Film

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• When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

  Tila Tequila

  School, Wanted, Stills

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• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  Kate Voegele

  Moving, Artist, Impact

  "Kate Voegele 'went on journey for new LP'" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. April 27, 2011.

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

  Kenneth Lay

  Problem, Economy, Plant

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• I'm really into California art from the '60s.

  Barry McGee

  Art

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• 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.

  Vince Vaughn

  Home, Opportunity, Choices

  "Visiting Vince Vaughn and Kevin James on The Dilemma set". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.

  Frederick Lenz

  Twilight, Eye, Space

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, Meditation

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• I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

  Bea Arthur

  Towns, Small Town, Maryland

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• I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Korea

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• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Southern, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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