Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Toombs

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Richard M. Nixon

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.

Rebecca Hall

No family is sane, is it?

Trey Parker

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

Robin Williams

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

Rudyard Kipling

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

Rudy Giuliani

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Warren Zevon

You put more value on every minute...You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.

Stephen Breyer

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

Sparky Anderson

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Victoria Wood

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

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.'

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.

Jeff Bridges

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

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.

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.

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.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

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.

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.