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Quotes About San Francisco

She laughed. All right, all right. Still want to leave for San Francisco tomorrow? Not unless you're in a hurry. Let's stick around awhile. This excitement has put us behind in our drinking.
~ Dashiell Hammett
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
~ Herb Caen
I need someone to love me,Need somebody to carry me home to San FranciscoAnd bury my body there.
~ Hoagy Carmichael
Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.
~ Ann Nocenti
You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.
~ Robert Scoble
After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco . . .
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It is said: San Francisco is where young people go to retire.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's struggling to stay in San Francisco.
~ London Breed
The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.
~ Jim Norton
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.
~ Jack Benny
I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe; God had created the world in less time than it took us to travel across America.
~ Peter Ackroyd
There was one, a Mr. Omuro, who had bought control of a great area of rental property in downtown San Francisco, and who for a time had been Frank's landlord. There was a bad apple, he thought. A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents
~ Philip K. Dick
lived on the Coast, in San Francisco. They have the skin thing there, too.
~ Philip K. Dick
It was San Francisco, after all; if you are a guy and you're worried about the girl you like hooking up with someone on her vacation, I suppose San Francisco is the safest bet, assuming she doesn't give her heart to a lesbian--and who among us hasn't done that?
~ Craig Ferguson
In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don't get to spend that much time together because we've got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner - the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people's shows that you don't normally get to see a longer version of.
~ Maria Bamford
For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.
~ Sasha Velour
We need more housing in San Francisco, plain and simple, and we especially need more affordable housing for our low-income households, seniors, teachers, formerly homeless people, veterans, and middle-income residents.
~ London Breed
I love San Francisco for the music culture. There's this vibe there that I can't find anywhere else in the world. Easily one of the best places on the sea coast.
~ Tash Sultana
I love the Bay Area and I love San Fran. I don't know why I love it so much. Maybe it's the vibe, maybe it's the fault lines. Nah, there's something very special in the air out there.
~ Goldie
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
I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.
~ Ben Gibbard
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.
~ Chesa Boudin
If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it's Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It's where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.
~ London Breed
Janis Joplin is singing with Big Brother in the Panhandle and almost everybody is high and it is a pretty nice Sunday afternoon.
~ Joan Didion