Famous quotes containing the words los angeles, los, angeles and/or including:
“Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
—Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969)
“Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like—Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything—but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)
“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)