#california

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy! ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#beauty #california #climbing #female-author #heaven

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#movies

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquake #nature #yosemite #nature

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#california #despair #disappointment #failure #i

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#enough #executives #i #i think #matured

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#because #california #friends #gone #i

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#california #college #college football #football #hawaii