Santa Barbara Quotes:

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.

- Alan Abel

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Animal, California, Santa Barbara

I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.

- Floyd Norman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Children, Kids, Santa Barbara

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

- Anthony Edwards

topic: Baseball, Kids, Santa Barbara, Little League Baseball, Barbara

Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

- Pico Iyer

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara, Californians, Bali

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Santa Barbara, Sea, Land

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

- Katy Perry

topic: Mean, Santa Barbara, Married, Barbara

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

- Kevin Costner

topic: Horse, Santa Barbara, Splits, Aspens

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: Retirement, Teaching, Santa Barbara, Barbara

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

- Katy Perry

source: "The GQ Cover Story: Katy Perry" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 21, 2014.

topic: Song, Couple, Writing, Avocados, Pistachios

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

- S. J. Perelman

topic: Airplane, Glasses, Cities, Santa Barbara, Barbara

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Paradise, Santa, May, Monotonous, Disneyland

No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as... the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates.

- Robert M. Parker, Jr.

topic: Wine, Greatness, America, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

- Floyd Norman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Art, Kids, Thinking, Santa Barbara

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Santa, News, Notable, Santa Barbara

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

- Jack Canfield

topic: Moving, Writing, San Francisco, Santa Barbara

After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky...

- Mitch Mitchell

topic: Night, July, Santa, Santa Barbara

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Sunday, Color, Roots, Santa Barbara

Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

- Gretel Ehrlich

topic: Running, Father, Night, Hull, Coast Guard

I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.

- Sam Hamill

source: Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

topic: Country, Powerful, Hate, Santa Barbara, Unitarian Church

Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Kids, Pursuit Of Happiness, College, Columbine, Right To Life

I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable.

- Floyd Norman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Kids, Grandmother, Maybe One Day, Santa Barbara

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

- Randy Quaid

topic: Running, Wind, Jail, Santa Barbara, Judicial System

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

- Kate Obenshain

topic: Home, Vacation, Air, Santa Barbara

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

- Martin Gore

topic: Years, Wife, Santa, Santa Barbara

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

- Eric Stoltz

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dad, School, Kids, Samoa, Idyllic

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

- David Crosby

topic: Years, Sea, Class, Dinghies, Santa Barbara

This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the line of sight. It's no longer an external conflict, like, oh, I have all these demands and I don't like them. The split is in the self. This may explain why, when I was in Santa Barbara before I went to Singapore and then now to Hong Kong, there was a writing moment when I was writing a poem a day. I had never done that before.

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: Hate, Writing, Sight, Santa Barbara, Barbara

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

- Jeff Bridges

topic: Wife, Santa, Take Me Away, Santa Barbara