«California»

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

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

Hedi Slimane

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.

Drew Barrymore

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I’d ever seen, that California sunshine.

Angela Carter

The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it’s absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It’s so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

Tamsin Egerton

California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Beth Anderson

If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.

Rick Perry

In California in the early Spring,

There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day,

The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain –

Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Robert Hass

When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Joni Mitchell

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That’s not to say humble people don’t exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Anna Kendrick

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

John Moody

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

Every time I come, I’m still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.

Theo James

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

Joan Didion

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California.

Alex Pettyfer