Famous quotes containing the words california, state and/or route:
“But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wifes nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. Yes, she answered, the figure of a fool.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)