Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rothfuss

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Oscar Wilde

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Michael O'Donoghue

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

Michael Franti

San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.

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.'

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.

Huey Lewis

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

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.

Homer

Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.

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.

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.

Christine Pelosi

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

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.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Neil Gaiman

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Neil Gaiman

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

John Waters

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

John Steinbeck

You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Maureen Johnson

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

Matt Mullenweg

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Philip Larkin

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.