Quotes and Sayings About San Francisco
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It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.
-- Al Michaels -
These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.
-- Alan Watts -
San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.
-- Amy Irving -
San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
-- Ang Lee -
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
-- Anne Lamott -
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
-- Anthony Mackie -
It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians hearts are.
-- Boz Scaggs -
In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.
-- Brian Chesky -
Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?
-- Bucky Sinister -
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
-- Calamity Jane -
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.
-- Carl G. Fisher -
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities
-- Cecil Beaton -
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
-- Cesar Chavez -
If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.
-- China Mieville -
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
-- Chita Rivera -
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
-- Christine Pelosi -
One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.
-- Christopher Owens -
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.
-- Conrad Hilton -
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
-- Dana Carvey -
Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
-- Daniel Tosh -
In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play
-- Danny Glover -
Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.
-- Dashiell Hammett
