(339 quotes found)
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city”
Dorothy Parker
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Simon Hoggart
“Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.”
Jim Morrison
“Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic”
Jonathan Culler
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
Rush Limbaugh
“In Los Angeles I've been stopped and had my car searched. Why? Because of the fictitious war on drugs that we are fighting. The emotional issue of the drug war is used to justify taking away civil rights.”
Tim Robbins
“Los Angeles is just New York lying down”
Quentin Crisp
“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
Andy Warhol
“I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.”
Russell Crowe