#california

Tell me once more about the eternal surf. ↗

— Rob Bignell

#love #ocean #love

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#foreigners #home #settling #strangers #men

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#movies

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#did #everyone #first #i #lifeguard

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#los-angeles #melting-pots #society #southern-california #wealth

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquake #nature #yosemite #nature

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#california #despair #disappointment #failure #i

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#being #california #cease #come #mightily

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#california #course #graduate #i #i am

I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it. ↗

— Halle Berry

#california #could #good #i #like