Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Norman Mailer

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

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.

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.

And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

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

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.'

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

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.

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Jeff Bridges

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

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.

Chris O'Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

George W. Bush

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

George Orwell

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

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.

Erich Fromm

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

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.'

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

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

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

Ray Durham

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