“The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”
Source: The Lightning Thief
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“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.”
Bret Easton Ellis book Less Than Zero
Source: Less Than Zero (1985)
“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”
Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
“A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.”
Viggo Mortensen (1958) American actor
On why more American actors don't take roles in foreign-language films as he does, The New York Times, " Bilingualism Steps Into a Leading Role http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/movies/viggo-mortensen-and-other-actors-take-roles-in-foreign-films.html" (March 31, 2013).
“Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.”
Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
(2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/FtU4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906&printsec=frontcover New Yale Book of Quotations
“Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.”
Kage Baker book Mendoza in Hollywood
Part 1 “Establishing Shot” Chapter 1 (p. 9)
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452266688 <br class="br">Attributed