Greater Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles may refer to:

  • The Greater Los Angeles Area, a large metropolitan region in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties
  • The Los Angeles metropolitan area, an urban area in southern California, United States, consisting of Los Angeles and Orange Counties

Famous quotes containing the words los angeles, greater, los and/or angeles:

    “If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Bookworm, break this sloth urbane;
    A greater spirit bids thee forth
    Than the gray dreams which thee detain.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Just because you live in LA it doesn’t mean you have to dress that way.”
    —Advertising billboard campaign in Los Angeles, mounted by New York fashion house Charivari.

    “Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)