La Quotes

“People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.”
― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

“Chiron looked surprised. “I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“You're not done with L.A. until L.A. is done with you.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“Sînt niște... compozițiuni de fetișcană care e cam tristă în fond, cam nebună și care vrea să filosofeze avînd certitudinea că e genială și că poate ajunge cu mîinile ei încă neformate, încă în creștere, stelele de pe cer.”
― Vasile Rebreanu, Un caz de iubire la Hollywood

“It was exhilarating, at least at first, to live in a city of narcissists.”
― Ian McEwan, In Between the Sheets

“The closer you looked at Los Angeles, the less sense the place made. Living here was like living inside a confusing dream that threatened to plunge into a nightmare at any moment. Richie viewed LA as their salvation, but Alabama saw the truth: It wanted to consume them.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“Freedom sounds phenomenal to the preoccupied young. But when one is an adult and has “free days” there is simply not much to do. Even in Los Angeles, where everything was. There was an unspoken spell of solitude cast on the city. Once one has been to the main parts of town, and had their fair share at the beach, Los Angeles turned unbreathably lonely. The biggest risks took place in grocery stores where a quiet shopper chose to switch to multi-grain bread after two years on sourdough. One could use their afternoons to create art— maybe writing a poem or painting a picture—all of which pass time but are isolating activities in and of themselves. The child begs for freedom and the adult wants to be told what to do.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“I genuinely love LA because this city is just as fucked up as me. ”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Dacă urmărești să devii ceva ce nu ești, vei da greș întotdeauna. Fii tu însuți. Arată, comportă-te natural și gândește cu mintea ta. Fii cea mai sinceră variantă a ta. Acceptă-ți eul. Susține-l. Iubește-l. Străduiește-te pentru el. Nu te abate atunci când oamenii îl iau în râs sau îl batjocoresc. Cele mai multe bârfe ascund invidii. Ține capul aplecat. Păstrează-ți energia.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Most men think the most difficult part of being a porn star is having sex for so long without ejaculating. They’re right but for the wrong reason. It’s having sex for so long and then ejaculating that’s the problem. Porn becomes a job like any other pretty quick. Then it’s all about maintaining the erection and being ready to fire on command. It’s not easy, believe me.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“Hollywood Boulevard at night was a dream in neon. Mickey cruised along the strip, colorful lights blurring by like hallucinations. On his right, the El Capitan Theatre lured customers in like a Vegas casino, while the Walk of Fame preserved stardom on his left. Tourists bustled beneath the blinking signs like extras in the giant story of this land of stories, hoping for a real-life glimpse of that other world just behind the veneer of this place. In the ’50s, Hollywood Boulevard had looked different—less buildings, less vehicles, less pedestrians—but the aura of the strip, the energy, hadn’t changed at all.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“Cruising down Compton Boulevard in the Catalina, Mickey sensed the charged atmosphere of the place, an energy that said anything could happen. Young men loitered in groups on the sidewalks in baggy T-shirts and bandannas while young women strolled up and down, smirking at the men hollering after them and whistling. When traffic lights turned red, blank-faced children appeared out of the darkness under overpasses like wraiths to sell drugs to drivers. Prostitutes wobbled along the streets on high heels, many of them with the vacant gaze of the addicted, while men with hard hearts and a lust for blood watched their every move. All the while well-intentioned families who called Compton home got ground up in the giant machine of this nation, slipping further toward poverty and the tragic moment when pressing need overtakes good intentions.

Even still, Compton was no longer what it once was. Ten years ago, Mickey might not have driven through it, and certainly wouldn’t have stopped and wandered around. But the homicide rate had decreased steadily since ’94, down to forty-eight murders in ’98 from a peak of eighty-seven in ’91, and small businesses were slowly but surely returning to the city. It bothered Mickey deeply that the state of California, with an economy greater than that of most countries, wouldn’t help these people, or that the federal government of the United States, the richest country in the history of the world, wouldn’t help them either, instead spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year on warfare and destruction. The people of Compton could be lifted from poverty with the signing of a bill, and it was no wonder, when you got right down to it, why so many had resorted to crime.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“Nobody knows Los Angeles until they’ve been entranced by it, corrupted by it, cast out from it, and returned to it on their knees begging it to save them, and Richie knew Los Angeles. He knew it better than anyone. This time he would tame the beast and make it his own—this time he would win.”
― Philip Elliott, Porno Valley

“For [Beth] Davis, Fitzgerald's [Louisiana] story carried another, broader message for Americans. 'If veterans could come together so soon after the War and forgive and forget, then surely we can overcome our differences,' she said. 'Old wounds were healed here, old barriers overcome. Seems like we should be able to do the same.”
― Tony Horwitz

“A visiting student in La Palma was working with astronomical detector engineer and routinely breathing nitrogen gas. He later unexpectedly fainted, collapsed to the ground and went to hospital.”
― Steven Magee

“I never thought about a job in astronomy until I saw a job advert advertising one. It was in the Canary Islands, working for the UK Government’s Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). Wow! That sounded so cool! I applied, got flown out for an interview on the island and took the job. I felt like I had won the lottery, as I was being paid to do something I was interested in and living on the beautiful island of La Palma. I started my career fixing broken vacuum cleaners at the city hospital, it was quite a change!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“If you want to make the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) management team uncomfortable, you ask this question: Could you direct me to the medical research papers that document the long term illnesses, diseases, and deaths in all of the La Palma and Mauna Kea summit staff (current and past employees) since they started operation?”
― Steven Magee

“A lot of people in La Palma live thousands of feet above sea level and regularly altitude commute daily.”
― Steven Magee

“The island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is really steep.”
― Steven Magee

“Why are you leaving Los Angeles?' asked Andrei.

'Something about the city. People don’t want to see each other. Everything’s too far away. A bunch of reasons. On sidewalks everyone avoids each other; it’s weird to go up to someone. Most of all, the weather’s a lie. Too much sun, and then everyone acts like the sun. You know what I mean? There’s so much to do, but no one to do it with.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“LA, the city where everyone’s constantly waiting for their phone to ring, and I’m part of it.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Molt sovint sembla que les situacions d'un mateix signe s'ajuntin; vull dir que, quan comences a tenir mala sort i comencen a passar-te coses dolentes, et fa l'efecte que tot plegat no s'ha d'acabar mai i que, facis el que facis, qualsevol cosa t'hagi de sortir malament. I, un bon dia, les circumstàncies canvien sense que et puguis explicar com. A partir d'aquell moment, tot comença a rutllar i sembla que el vent et vagi a favor.”
― Gemma Lienas, Así es la vida, Carlota

“La vida, de fet, ens er aun circ permanent.”
― Manuel Joan i Arinyó

“This jury told the world that what we all saw with our own eyes wasn’t a crime. Today, that jury asked us to accept the senseless and brutal beating of a helpless man. Today, that same jury said that we should tolerate such conduct by those who are sworn to protect and serve. My friends, I’m here to tell this jury: No. No, our eyes did not deceive us. We saw what we saw, and what we saw was a crime.”
― Tom Bradley

“Caleb Omotunde, a versatile artist with a passion for creativity. Alongside his writing career, he is an accomplished painter, capturing the essence of emotions through his vibrant canvases.”
― Caleb Omotunde

“Welcome to Los Angeles, where the sun never stops shining, and dreams never die.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Returning to LA feels like coming home to a dysfunctional family: they drive you crazy, but deep down, you know you can't live without them.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“LA, the city where everyone's constantly waiting for their phone to ring, and I'm part of it.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Ich liebe LA wirklich, weil diese Stadt genauso abgefuckt ist wie ich.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Scherben einer zerbrochenen Seele

“Willkommen in Los Angeles, wo die Sonne nie aufhört zu scheinen und die Träume niemals sterben.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Scherben einer zerbrochenen Seele