San Francisco Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about San Francisco
San Francisco Quotes & Sayings
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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
— Jon Oringer
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
— Daniel Pinchbeck
I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.
— Tommy Wiseau
The cool, grey city of love.
— George Sterling
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.
— Christina Westover
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
— William, Saroyan
How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?
— James Patterson
If she ever had a child, she would want him to grow up in San Francisco, where Mardi Gras was celebrated at least five times a year.
— Armistead Maupin
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
— Gavin Newsom
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
— Mark Waters
If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.
— Daniel Suarez
Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.
— Norman Foster
San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here ... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.
— Eddie Izzard
I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.
— Christina Westover
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.
— O. Henry
In San Francisco my friends and I picked a decade and stuck with it. We listened to old music, drove old cars, and wore old clothes.
— Sophia Amoruso
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
— Walter Cronkite
Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, .. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.
— Warren Rudman
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
— Susanna Kaysen
Of course you had to pick the dive-y-est dive bar this side of Market. I think that door handle just gave me a venereal disease.
— Laura Oliva
The guys in New York don't know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.
— Larry Kramer
I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.
— Chicken John
I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.
— Raymond Burr
Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.
— Terence Stamp
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.
— James Bernard Frost
Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.
— Gedde Watanabe
She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.
— Danielle Steel
Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.
— Michael O'Donoghue
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
— Chita Rivera
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.
— Dave Barry
What brings you up to the City? he said when we were inside. To San Franciscans, there's only one city.
— Ross Macdonald
You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.
— Don Johnson
My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.
— Johnny Vegas
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
— John Breaux
In San Francisco, racism came at you with a smile.
— David Talbot
I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.
— Sophia Amoruso
But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky
— Robert Hunter
The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ...
— Christina Westover
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.
— Avan Jogia
The San Francisco skyline sparkles in the distance, the bay spread out before it like a shark-infested welcome mat.
— T.T. Monday
When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
— John Prendergast
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
— Mark Twain
of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.
— Tracy Chevalier
You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.
— June Ahern
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
— Sara Zarr
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
didn't have a map section.
How was I supposed to know
that Berkeley was not
a neighborhood of San Francisco? — Bucky Sinister
I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.
— Winona Ryder
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
— Dana Carvey
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams
Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Tennessee Williams
Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.
— Ron Conway
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
— Christine Pelosi
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
— Russell Brand
I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.
— Gedde Watanabe
Really, is having your body taken by aliens all that bad?
— San Francisco Chronicle
All the bad in my life led me to her, which makes me think that I can live with the past if she is my future. - HEW
— Michelle Warren
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.
— Cesar Pelli
For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.
— John Nardizzi
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
— Nora Ephron
I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.
— Luisa Tetrazzini
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?
— Matt Mullenweg
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
— Eric Allin Cornell
God! I loove this city!
— Herb Caen
I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
— Leila Janah
I would love to shoot in San Francisco permanently. It would be such a joy to come back home full circle.
— Michael Trucco
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
— Paul Prudhomme
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I move between San Francisco and Paris ... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
— Danielle Steel
What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.
— John Of Shanghai And San Francisco
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.
— Carter F. Smith
I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!
— Nick Johnson
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.
— Nikita Khrushchev
I was just another lost soul screaming through the paper thin hotel walls into the ears of the fucked.
— Craig Stone