Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was total devastation. When I walked up to the church, I said 'Uh oh, this is the end.' The sanctuary was just demolished.

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

Clint Hurdle

In San Francisco, they can whoop and holler and hooray for Barry. But here, we want to get him out and win a ballgame.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

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.'

Jeffrey Loria

San Antonio is a very viable market. If we can't play here, we'll play somewhere else.

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Sanctions weld together the state and the population.

As San Antonio is to breast cancer, we want this to be for prostate cancer.

They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

Harry S Truman

The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

H. L. Mencken

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

Muddy Waters

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

Jim Butcher

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

Jean de la Bruyere

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Jean Baudrillard

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.

Margaret Cho

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

Mark Twain

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

Mark Twain

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

Mikhail Gorbachev

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Ian Bogost

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

I'm not sure any sanctions would have any effect.

Ralph Nader

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Shane Battier

Sometimes you've got to eat a turd sandwich; makes the ribeye taste better next time.

Michelle Malkin

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

John Grisham

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

Terrell Owens

It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.