“In the rural South, ‘Bubba’ is like how people say ‘dude’ in California. It’s a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.” – Bubba Sparxxx
“There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.” – Wayne Rogers
“The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.” – John Jakes
“I believe in that old adage that ‘as goes California, so goes the country.” – Kamala Harris
“I just didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.” – Krista Allen
“California’s 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline ’74-year-old Boxer,’ I assumed they were making another ‘Rocky’ movie.” – Conan O’Brien
“Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decided I’m only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.” – Margaret Atwood
“I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it’s changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don’t know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.” – Carl Hiaasen
“The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it’s real effort to keep breathing.” – Jack Paar
“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.” – Ross Macdonald
“All of the sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.” – Erma Bombeck
“Hollywood is where the shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.” – Walter Winchell
“Californians try everything once.” – T.J. MacGregor
“Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.” – Bob hope
“I don’t bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell.” – Bob Hope
“When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.” – Will Rogers
“Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there’s no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving.” – Craig Ferguson
“In California, Thieves have three choices: They go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.” – Burt Prelutsky
“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.” – Jimmy Carter
“I’d rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.” – Inez Haynes Irwin
“I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there is something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one’s thoughts.” – Hilton Als
“Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.” – Erica Jong Hilton Als
“California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn’t really need. You can quote me on that.” – Saul Bellow
“In the photographs themselves there’s a definite contrast between the figures and location – I like the kind of California Backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.” – Helmut Newton
“I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.” – Robert Hass
“If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in the prison or running one.” – James Gray
“When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction of fossil fuels really came into focus.” – Bonnie Raitt
“My accountant tells me I can’t be a California resident anymore. I spend too much of my time in New York.” – Phil Jackson
“The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn’t have to if it seceded and become a nation.” – David Swanson
“We’re releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don’t have the money. They don’t have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.” – Rush Limbaugh
“I’m very much a hippie from Northern California.” – Jessica Chastain
“I like girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.” – Robert Englund
“California is a tragic country – like Palestine, like every promise land.” – Christopher Isherwood
“I’m a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more in the place like Texas and California, the more I know I’m a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.” – Garry Winogrand
“Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.” – Tommy Chong
