"You haven't lived until you've died in California"

-- Mort Sahl

#California Quotes

“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.”

Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.421
“I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.”
“When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.”

Source : Jane Alexander (2007). “Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics”, p.322, Da Capo Press
“When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best.”
“Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.”
“There is no contradiction between true religion and science”
“O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.”
“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.”

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