California, n.: From Latin “calor”, meaning “heat” (as in English “calorie” or Spanish “caliente”); and “fornia'” for “sexual intercourse” or “fornication.” Hence: Tierra de California, “the land of hot sex.”
California Quotes
Isn’t it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
Back about in 48; or ’46 an eager-beaver American army officer captured California. You know what the State Department did? They made him hand it back. Seems he hadn’t touched second base, or something. So they had to go to the trouble of capturing it all over again a few months later.
I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
No man could find a better spot on earth, if only he had some intelligent person to talk to… Los Angeles is a waxworks museum. Everything looks real, then you notice it’s a fairly good replica which, however, never fools you.
In California, everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
California is a tragic country – like Palestine, like every Promised Land.
California: bordering always on the Pacific and sometimes on the ridiculous. So, why do I live here? Because the sun goes down a block from my house.
California reminds me of the popular American Protestant concept of Heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals; one meets many – not all – of one’s friends; people spend a good deal of their time congratulating one another about the fact that they are there; discontent would be unthinkable; and the newcomer […]
