Typical California Quotes & Sayings

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.
Otherwise, you are dead. — Langston Hughes

Love is an afternoon of fishing when I'd sooner be at the ballet.
Love is eating burnt toast and lumpy graving with a big smile.
Love is hearing the words 'You're beautiful' as I fail to squeeze into my fat jeans.
Love is refusing to bring up the past, even if doing so would be a slam dunk to prove your point.
Love is your hand wiping away my tears, trying to erase streaks of mascara.
Love is the warm hug that extinguishes an argument.
Love is a humbly-uttered apology, even if not at fault.
Love is easy to recognize but so hard to define; however, I think it boils down to this ...
Love is caring so much about the feelings of someone else, you sacrifice whatever it takes to help him or her feel better.
In other words, love is my heart being sensitive to yours. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly. — Andy Andrews

I'm a typical California boy. — Gary Lockwood

If the sweat and blood of all faiths seeped into the same soil, then a synthesis must take root — Shahrukh Husain

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play. — Al Kaline

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people. — Jane Horrocks

My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas. — Amber Riley

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain

How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman. — Ishmael Reed

I'm from Malibu, California. Once I tell people, they're like, 'Oh, of course you're from Malibu; that makes sense.' I guess I am your typical just-graduated-high-school-in-Malibu type of girl. Our school was just across from Zuma beach, and we all wore Lululemons and bathing suit tops to go to the grocery store - no makeup, no shoes. — Gigi Hadid

Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes! — Joanna Cole

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London