San Francisco Quotes

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.

Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

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

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

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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

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

Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.

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.

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

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.

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.

I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

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.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

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

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

This morning, due to a massive storm, at least 150,000 people in San Francisco were left without power. Of course, people in San Francisco without power are usually called Republicans.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

I don’t like San Francisco. I love it!

San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.