Los Quotes - page 7

Hiding up in the mountains Laying low in the canyons Goin' nowhere in the streets With the Spanish names Makin' love with the natives In their Hollywood places Making up for all the time gone by Los Angelenos All came from somewhere. (Billy Joel)
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. View quote
Lady Gaga
... a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, ... a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,... which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star' in Los Angeles. View quote
Georges Duhamel
Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for. View quote
Frank McCourt
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus, I thought, I am ripped right straight to the tits. Where am I? Are we going up or down? Somewhere in the back of my brain, I knew I was sitting in a jeep in the parking lot of a night club on an island off the Mexican coast - but how could I really be sure, with another part of my brain apparently convinced that I was looking down on the huge glittering bowl of Los Angeles from the cockpit of a 727? Was that the Milky Way? Or Sunset Boulevard? Orion, or the Beverly Hills Hotel? View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away. View quote
Kate Mara
I met Lindsey in high school in San Francisco. We had gone to some party and he was sitting in the middle of this gorgeous living room playing a song. I walked over and stood next to him, and the song was "California Dreaming," and I just started singing with him. And so I just threw in my Michelle Phillips harmony, and he was so beautiful. And then I didn't really see him again until two years later, when he called me and asked me if I wanted to be in his rock 'n' roll band, which I didn't even know existed. And within two or three months we were opening for Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, all the San Francisco bands. Two years later, we packed up and moved to Los Angeles with about 12 demos. View quote
Stevie Nicks
There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962. View quote
Priscilla Presley
If I spent too much time here in Los Angeles, I could probably get a little messed up. It's not real here, being on a set with only actors. I've worked with people who were totally cool, then once they got all the publicity and attention, it just went to their heads. If I did anything like that my friends would say, 'What's up with you? That really doesn't fly here.' I'm lucky I have a really strong network of people I'm close to, so I try to keep as grounded as possible by going home every weekend, where I'm just normal. (Larisa Oleynik)
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. View quote
Bret Easton Ellis
Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business. View quote
Ville Valo
I had a colonic irrigation in this clinic in Santa Monica, because people in Los Angeles cannot do anything for themselves, much less take a shit. View quote
Margaret Cho
Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been. View quote
Kage Baker
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. View quote
Barbara Kruger
The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles. View quote
Ringo Starr
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East. View quote
Tessa Thompson
I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before. View quote
Elton John
I look at those words-gang ties-and I think about all the players I've met in the NFL and all of us who come from inner-city neighborhoods like mine in Los Angeles, and I wonder how many of us could honestly say we're not friends with guys doing the wrong things. I can't. View quote
Richard Sherman (American football)
But go ahead and judge DeSean for the company he keeps. While you're at it, judge me, too, because I still live in Los Angeles, and my family does, too. We didn't run from where we grew up. We aren't afraid to be associated with the people who came up with us. We brought some of our money back and started charities and tried to help out a few guys who were with us when we were nobodies. I won't apologize for that, and I suspect neither will DeSean when he's back on the field doing what he's always done: grinding through adversity. (Richard Sherman (American football))
I was imprisoned in Concepción for a few days and then realeased. They didn't torture me, as I had feared; they didn't even rob me. But they didn't give me anything to eat either, or any kind of covering for the night, so I had to rely on the goodwill of other prisoners, who shared their food with me. In the small hours I could hear them torturing others; I couldn't sleep and there was nothing to read except a magazine in English that someone had left behind. The only interesting article in it was about a house that had once belonged to Dylan Thomas. ... I got out of that hole thanks to a pair of detectives who had been at high school with me in Los Ángeles... View quote
Roberto Bolaño
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there? View quote
Herb Caen
I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles. View quote
Peter Wentz
I do truly treasure this story. It proves my point that the Los Angeles Times -- along with the big East Coast dailies -- should all be called U. S. OFFICIALS SAY. View quote
Robert Fisk