Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

David Sedaris

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

Dana Carvey

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

Craig Ferguson

There are plans for a new high-speed train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will make the trip time 30 minutes. People in L.A. are like, Yes! And people in San Francisco are like, Yeah, sure, great. We look forward to seeing you.

Ashleigh Brilliant

There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

Annie Leibovitz

When I was younger I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I went down to the docks in San Francisco and asked a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

Conrad Hilton

In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

Ambrose Bierce

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Danielle Steel

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

Cindy Sheehan

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Alfred Hitchcock

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

Amy Seimetz

I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.

Anthony Bourdain

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Bill Engvall

I was sitting on a plane that is traveling towards Seattle. And the guy next to me turns and says to me Hey, you going to Seattle?. Nope, San Francisco... I'll be parachuting off in about an hour. Here's your sign!

Cecil Beaton

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Joan Rivers

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

Frank Lloyd Wright

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

Gedde Watanabe

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

Gavin Newsom

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

Gavin Newsom

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans

Gavin Newsom

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

O. Henry

East is East, and West is San Francisco

O. Henry

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Herb Caen

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Herb Caen

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Herb Caen

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Ezra Koenig

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

Harold Ross

In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

Iris Chang

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

Christine Pelosi

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Jello Biafra

From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.