Los Angeles City

Famous quotes containing the words los angeles, los, angeles and/or city:

    “Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “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)

    “In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
    —Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    “I come from the city of Boston,
    The home of the bean and the cod,”
    —John Collins Bossidy (1860–1928)