California Quotes
Most popular California quotes
![Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff. This was California. You could get LSD fresh made from Stanford. You could sleep on the beach at night with your girlfriend. California has a sense of experimentation and a sense of openness—openness to new possibilities. - Steve Jobs quote.](/img/q/01/15401A-woz-and-i-very-much-liked-bob-dylans-poetry-we-steve-jobs.png)
Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff. This was California. You could get LSD fresh made from Stanford. You could sleep on the beach at night with your girlfriend. California has a sense of experimentation and a sense of openness—openness to new possibilities.
![California is once-and-future America, and much that is newest and biggest in this country, both its best and worst, is concentrated along our western edge. - Shana Alexander quote.](/img/q/62/27562A-california-is-once-and-future-america-much-that-is-newest-shana-alexander.png)
California is once-and-future America, and much that is newest and biggest in this country, both its best and worst, is concentrated along our western edge.
![California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital. - James Bryce quote.](/img/q/63/27563A-california-more-than-any-other-part-union-is-country-by-james-bryce.png)
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
![California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. - Joan Didion quote.](/img/q/64/27564A-california-is-a-place-in-which-boom-mentality-sense-chekhovian-joan-didion.png)
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.
![California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote.](/img/q/65/27565A-california-is-a-state-peculiarly-addicted-swift-enthusiasms-it-is-charlotte-perkins-gilman.png)
California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.
![California is a tragic country—Like Palestine, like every Promised Land. - Christopher Isherwood quote.](/img/q/66/27566A-california-is-a-tragic-country-like-palestine-like-every-promised-christopher-isherwood.png)
California is a tragic country—Like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
![California reminds me of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals. - George F. Kennan quote.](/img/q/67/27567A-california-reminds-me-of-the-popular-american-protestant-concept-heaven-george-f-kennan.png)
California reminds me of the popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals.
![There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white, like washlines, and emptyheaded. - Jack Kerouac quote.](/img/q/68/27568A-there-is-something-brown-and-holy-about-east-california-is-jack-kerouac.png)
There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white, like washlines, and emptyheaded.
![California is a queer place—in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. - D. H. Lawrence quote.](/img/q/69/27569A-california-is-a-queer-place-in-way-it-has-turned-d-h-lawrence.png)
California is a queer place—in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
![California is an Italy without its art. - Oscar Wilde quote.](/img/q/70/27570A-california-is-an-italy-without-its-art-oscar-wilde.png)
California is an Italy without its art.
![If you turned the country on its side, everything loose would fall into Southern California. - Frank Lloyd Wright quote.](/img/q/71/27571A-if-you-turned-the-country-on-its-side-everything-loose-frank-lloyd-wright.png)
If you turned the country on its side, everything loose would fall into Southern California.
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.