San Francisco Quotes - Page 14

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

  Danielle Steel

  Style, Dresses, Chic

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• They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.

  Sally Stanford

  Running, Class, People

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• San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

  Harvey Milk

  Rights, Numbers, People

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• 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

  Home, June, Different

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

  Dana Carvey

  Competition, Lucky, Comedy

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Long, Leader

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• San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

  Gavin Newsom

  Space, Cities, Community

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• I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

  Huey Lewis

  Paradise, Natural, Grew Up

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• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  Wendell Pierce

  Years, Three, Baltimore

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• 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

  Work Out, Factories, Employee

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• 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

  Fun, Cities, Roles

  "What Anthony Mackie Can Do in a Day". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Singers, Used, Streets

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• Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

  Gedde Watanabe

  Artist, Communes

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• I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Work, Dedication

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Flower, Hair, Cities

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• 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

  Country, Disaster, Found

  "WAR ON TERROR: Four Years After 9/11 / The quest for national security / NATURAL DISASTER'S MARK: In Hurricane Katrina's wake, some question whether battle against terrorism is the right fight" by Marc Sandalow, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2005.

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• It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.

  David Robertson

  Eggs, Effort, Needs

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• I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

  Sara Zarr

  Jesus, California, Church

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

  Norman Foster

  Car, Google, Robots

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, World, Hawks

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!

  Larry King

  Girl, Dream, Perfect Days

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• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

  Andre Dubus

  Daughter, Morning, New York

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  New York, War, Home

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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

  Depressing, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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