Places Quotations
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| California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. | |||
| - Truman Capote | |||
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| The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| California is a queer place - in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.... It's sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem. | |||
| - D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock. | |||
| - Anita Loos | |||
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| How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. | |||
| - Katherine Mansfield | |||
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| I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. | |||
| - James Albert Michener | |||
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| New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. | |||
| - Henry Miller | |||
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| It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance. | |||
| - Ashley Montagu | |||
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| New York, the nation's thyroid gland. | |||
| - Christopher Morley | |||
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| California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. | |||
| - J.B. Priestley | |||
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| It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York. | |||
| - John Steinbeck | |||
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| Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. | |||
| - Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
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| The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. | |||
| - Michael Ventre | |||
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| New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! | |||
| - E.B. White | |||