Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Foster

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Penal sanctions are O.K. for those that peddle ... For athletes, sporting sanctions are much more severe.

I think there will be relief. I'm not saying you want it to be over, but this has been a long season. I've been through a 1-15 season (in San Diego) before, and it hasn't been this bad. I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

Keith Stanfield

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Barry Trotz

We just have to do that in San Jose.

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

China Mieville

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.

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.

Margaret Cho

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

Mark Twain

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

Mark Twain

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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.

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.

H. L. Mencken

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

H. L. Mencken

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

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.

Jon Stewart

I want a sandwich named after me.

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.

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

Justin Halpern

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