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:

    “There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter”
    —Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)

    “Generally speaking, the greater a woman’s beauty, the greater her modesty.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    “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)