Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Jon Stewart

I want a sandwich named after me.

Jim Lovell

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

Emanuel Cleaver

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

Joan Chen

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

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.

Garrison Keillor

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

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

Justin Halpern

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

Lawrence Taylor

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

Pope Francis

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

Mick Ralphs

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

Kim Novak

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Leonard Maltin

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Susan Orlean

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Rick Ross

I remember when I couldn’t afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.

Roy Keane

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Tony Gilroy

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

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.