Californian Quotes

#1. I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, greenhorn southern-Californian Asian upper-middle-class ghetto, where everyone is so shallow and money-craven.

Gary Shteyngart

#2. If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

George P. Shultz

#3. I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.

U-God

#4. There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

Carrie Fisher

#5. To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

Peggy Guggenheim

#6. I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.

Terry Pratchett

#7. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working and lucky to be working.

Scott Eastwood

#8. What does a Californian make for dinner? Reservations.

Maureen Lipman

#9. London and L.A. are both places I feel I can call home. It's a nice balance of Californian calm and that slightly more engaged, electric London vibe that I've always loved.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#10. A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

Billy Bob Thornton

#12. Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#13. I consider myself almost a Californian at this point, because I've been here long enough. Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.

Reid Scott

#14. The opposite of theism is not atheism, it's idolatry.

Kyle Idleman

#15. I'd forgotten my identity as the world's most pathetic superhero, become a Californian instead.

Jonathan Lethem

#16. Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

Carre Otis

#17. Before I lived in America, my husband and I did a Californian road trip. We took a month, starting off in L.A. I love the landscapes of California: one moment you're in the desert, the next you're up in the Napa Valley or by the water in Big Bear.

Ashley Jensen

#18. Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Jules Olitski

#19. After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.

Josh Radnor

#20. If you were doing something in secret and didn't want the attention, what better way to have it ridiculed and dismissed than bring in a few Californian elements?

Thomas Pynchon

#21. My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

Brian K. Vaughan

#22. I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.

Abraham Verghese

#23. When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

Toby Jones

#24. Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

John Ruskin

#25. I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

Bryn Terfel

#26. When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

Ajahn Chah

#27. I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Pete Sampras

#28. Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n.

Bum Phillips

#29. People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

Linda Gray

#30. Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

Tom Hodgkinson

#31. I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse! He's a soldier. Together we traveled the world. We won the Santa Anita Big Cap, Goodwood, almost won the Breeder's Cup Classic; we won the San Antonio, Hollywood Gold Cup and the Californian.

Chantal Sutherland

#32. I think to myself:
I don't want to survive this one
I want to burn up in the wreckage

Henry Rollins

#33. The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest
not a friendly Californian forest, either, but an old Transylvanian forest, a forest full of wolves and witches and dagger-wielding bandits all waiting just beyond moonlight's reach.

Robin Sloan

#34. You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

Joel Osteen

#35. I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

Eric Burdon

#36. Sir, married or unmarried, all women bleed.

Ronlyn Domingue

#37. I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

Gertrude Atherton

#38. One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

A.J.P. Taylor