A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

The color of truth is gray.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.