Top San Francisco Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of San Francisco quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kim Novak
I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.
- Kim Novak
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Gavin Newsom
As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy
- Gavin Newsom
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Gavin Newsom
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans
- Gavin Newsom
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Gavin Newsom
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive
- Gavin Newsom
Collection: San Francisco
Image of China Mieville
If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.
- China Mieville
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Will Durst
In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant.
- Will Durst
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Herb Caen
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
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Joan Chen
Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.
- Joan Chen
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Dorothy Lamour
I don’t like San Francisco. I love it!
- Dorothy Lamour
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Bill Engvall
I was sitting on a plane that is traveling towards Seattle. And the guy next to me turns and says to me Hey, you going to Seattle?. Nope, San Francisco... I'll be parachuting off in about an hour. Here's your sign!
- Bill Engvall
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Luisa Tetrazzini
I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.
- Luisa Tetrazzini
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Emperor Norton
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.
- Emperor Norton
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Harold Ross
In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.
- Harold Ross
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Amy Seimetz
I was doing experimental theater and experimental film in San Francisco, and I moved to Los Angeles, and what I got frustrated with was, it seemed like everyone was waiting for something to happen. Obviously, films take a lot of planning, and I wanted something more immediate, and comedy started to become that.
- Amy Seimetz
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Conrad Hilton
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.
- Conrad Hilton
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Patricia Montandon
San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme.
- Patricia Montandon
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Jonathan Meiburg
One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.
- Jonathan Meiburg
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Ed Lee
Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world.
- Ed Lee
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Nancy Peters
The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing
- Nancy Peters
Collection: San Francisco
Image of John Vanderslice
There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.
- John Vanderslice
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Jack London
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.
- Jack London
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Gavin Newsom
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history
- Gavin Newsom
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Harry S. Truman
The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.
- Harry S. Truman
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Frank Sinatra
Now there's a grown-up swinging town.
- Frank Sinatra
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Collection: San Francisco
Image of William Saroyan
If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.
- William Saroyan
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Oscar Wilde
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Sarah Rees Brennan
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.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Muddy Waters
The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.
- Muddy Waters
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Ambrose Bierce
San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen
- Ambrose Bierce
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Joan Rivers
They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.
- Joan Rivers
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Jello Biafra
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.
- Jello Biafra
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Mark Twain
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
- Mark Twain
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Mark Twain
I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.
- Mark Twain
Collection: San Francisco
Image of David Sedaris
It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection."
- David Sedaris
Collection: San Francisco
Image of John Waters
I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.
- John Waters
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Danielle Steel
There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]
- Danielle Steel
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Robin Williams
There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.
- Robin Williams
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Terrell Owens
It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.
- Terrell Owens
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Augusten Burroughs
I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.
- Augusten Burroughs
Collection: San Francisco
Image of David Bezmozgis
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.
- David Bezmozgis
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Pauline Oliveros
The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.
- Pauline Oliveros
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Rick Ross
I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.
- Rick Ross
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Nora Ephron
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
- Nora Ephron
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Craig Ferguson
There are plans for a new high-speed train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It will make the trip time 30 minutes. People in L.A. are like, Yes! And people in San Francisco are like, Yeah, sure, great. We look forward to seeing you.
- Craig Ferguson
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Mikhail Gorbachev
You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Danny Glover
I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I was certainly very much involved in the activities that occurred on campus. It was part of an extraordinary period in my life
- Danny Glover
Collection: San Francisco
Image of Alfred Hitchcock
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Collection: San Francisco