Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Dana Carvey

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

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.

Conrad Hilton

In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

Ambrose Bierce

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Annie Leibovitz

When I was younger I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I went down to the docks in San Francisco and asked a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

Cindy Sheehan

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Alan Watts

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

Alan Watts

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

Alan Watts

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Alan Price

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Alan Moore

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

Alan Moore

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Alan Moore

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Alan Jackson

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

Alan Bean

I have the nicest life in the world.

Judith Anderson

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.