Welcome to Hollywood, a
Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I’m one of the animals in a cage. Elinor Glyn
Coast
[There was] an openness
[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways. Eleanor Antin
It doesn\\’t bother me
It doesn’t bother me that I’m not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis – I’m so popular in these cities where you’ve never imagined an East Coast comedian working. Elayne Boosler
There are many comedians
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they’re afraid they’ll bomb. Elayne Boosler
Man was sent into
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,–a Columbus of the skies. Edwin Hubbel … Read more
Sixty thousand blacks are
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa. Edward Gibbon
Moreover it is becoming
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our … Read more
…It is a very
…It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water …. That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe. Edward Forbes
….decay and disfavor came
….decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments. Edward Bunker
Every writer has his
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati — those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues. Edward Abbey