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:

    “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)

    “Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “Of Eva first, that for hir wikkednesse
    Was al mankinde brought to wrecchednesse,
    For which that Jesu Crist himself was slain
    That boughte us with his herte blood again—
    Lo, heer expres of wommen may ye finde
    That womman was the los of al mankinde.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)