Long Beach California Sayings

#1. When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

Nicolas Cage

#2. I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Douglas Booth

#3. If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff.

Mike Royer

#4. That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

Edward Tufte

#5. On the other side of fear is your breakthrough.

Jeanette Coron

#6. Not unlike a selfie on Instagram or a well-crafted tweet, the computer screen projects the image I choose to portray. We all do it. My life - the glimpse obtained through Youtube - is no more perfect than yours. I'm no different.

Connor Franta

#7. Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.

Charles Kennedy

#8. Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

#9. I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.

Palmer Luckey

#10. The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.

Domhnall Gleeson

#11. And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I've never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I'm curious about, and I'd love to be able to say, "Teach me." I want to learn from the people around me.

Drew Barrymore

#13. How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

Georgette Heyer

#14. Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

Claire North

#15. I like to take long naps. I like long walks on the beach. The perfect day is back home, California, going to the beach with a couple of friends, laying out in the sunshine, get a nice bronze.

Keaton Stromberg

#16. Language is wine upon the lips.

Virginia Woolf

#17. Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

Andrew Solomon

#18. I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.

William Finnegan