Famous quotes containing the words los angeles, los, angeles and/or superior:
“Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women’s Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven’t read or learned or seen anything at all.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“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)
“The superior person can find peace in poverty; the philosophical mind accepts the will of Heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.