Californiana Quotes

#1. In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

Marge Piercy

#3. There is no such thing as intellectual property.

Jean-Luc Godard

#4. of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.

Tracy Chevalier

#5. He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.

Tracy Chevalier

#6. If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.

Tracy Chevalier

#7. Jules liked that I was a local. I made her feel authentic, which is especially important to Californians.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#8. I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

David Cameron

#9. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.

Tipu Sultan

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Douglas Rushkoff