Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. Jacobs

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

A. J. Liebling

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Samuel Butler

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Russell Pearce

We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.

Ludwig von Mises

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

David Walton

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

I think there will be relief. I'm not saying you want it to be over, but this has been a long season. I've been through a 1-15 season (in San Diego) before, and it hasn't been this bad. I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

Keith Stanfield

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

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.

Daniel Johns

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

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

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.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Alfred Hitchcock

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

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.

Anthony Bourdain

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

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!

Penal sanctions are O.K. for those that peddle ... For athletes, sporting sanctions are much more severe.

As San Antonio is to breast cancer, we want this to be for prostate cancer.

Ray Durham

I told the (team) I'm going to come back. I like everyone here. I like everything about San Francisco.

I'm not sure any sanctions would have any effect.

Danielle Steel

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

Bruce Johnston

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

We sang every one of the operettas -- straight through -- when we were in Rockville, Maryland, ... We sang from 8 a.m. until 3 a.m. Since then we've sung them all again, but we've taken it a little easier.

Christopher Lee

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

We would like to keep the sanctity of our neighborhood as it is -- rural.

Evangeline Lilly

I've had to find my sanity.

Muddy Waters

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

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!