Famous places quotations

   [T]his is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something.  Nice Word by From the television show Beverly Hills 90210

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by D.H. Lawrence

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   New York, the nation's thyroid gland.  Good Quote by Christopher Morley, Shore Leave

   Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.  Wise Phrase by Le Corbusier

   It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.  Wise Phrase by Ashley Montagu, about California

   The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.  Famous Saying by Phil Ochs

   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!  Nice Word by E.B. White

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by Katherine Mansfield

   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.  Good Quote by J.B. Priestley

   You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.  Wise Phrase by Alec Waugh

   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.  Wise Phrase by Anita Loos

   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.  Famous Saying by Robert Louis Stevenson

   You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.  Nice Word by William Loyn Phelps

   California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.  Meaningful Quotation by Hinton R. Helper

   California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.  Wise Phrase by Mark Twain, attributed

   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.  Wise Phrase by John Steinbeck

   New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.  Famous Saying by Henry Miller

   When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles.  Nice Word by Neil Simon

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News

   They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.  Wise Phrase by Truman Capote

   The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.  Wise Phrase by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

   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.  Famous Saying by James Agate



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