San Francisco Quotes - Page 9

• There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

  William Henry Irwin

  Beach, Sweet, Night

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• 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.

  William Henry Irwin

  Spring, Adventure, Journey

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• Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

  Martina Navratilova

  Country, Beach, New York

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• On any day in the Mission in San Francisco, you can see a hand-painted sign that is kind of funky, and maybe that person, if they had money, would prefer to have had a neon sign. But I don't prefer that. I think it's beautiful, what they did and that they did it themselves. That's what I find beautiful.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hands

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• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  Pete Stark

  War, Smart, Thinking

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• Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Kings, New York, Tired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

  Barry McGee

  Inspiration, Cities, Inspire

  "'It Is Ultimately About Freedom': Barry McGee on His Prism Gallery Show and Berkeley Museum Retrospective". ARTINFO Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

  Margaret Cho

  Kids, Long, Fans

  "My Ellen Visit, Deferred" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2008.

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• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  Andy Cohen

  Sexy, Uncles, Aunt

  "Bravo's Andy Cohen shares his story in the Castro". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  New York, Fun, Paris

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• I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Dream, Writing

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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Virginia, Feelings

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.

  Queen Latifah

  New Year, Fun, Gay

  "Queen Latifah denies coming out at Long Beach Gay Pride parade". Interview with Kerrie Mitchell, www.ew.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

  George Lucas

  Believe, America, Democracy

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• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

  Susan Orlean

  Office, Navy, Orbit

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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

  Carre Otis

  Father, School, Law

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Team, Winning

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• President Bush said he was 'troubled' by gay people getting married in San Francisco. He said on important issues like this the people should make the decision, not judges. Unless of course we're choosing a president, then he prefers judges.

  Jay Leno

  Gay, Issues, People

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• 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.

  Nicolas Cage

  Next Day, Motorcycle, Way

  "Ghost Rider - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

  Dave Eggers

  Children, Cities, Paper

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Iowa, Trying

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.71, Penguin

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• The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• 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.

  Marc Maron

  Running, New York, Boston

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Education, Country, Health

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