Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

East is East, and West is San Francisco

O. Henry

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Leonard Maltin

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Kim Novak

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Maureen Johnson

I feel warm and reassured," I whispered. "He's like Santa.

Matt Mullenweg

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

Jon Stewart

I want a sandwich named after me.

Mick Ralphs

I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco.

Ovid

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

Joe Nichols

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

Justin Halpern

Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.

Lawrence Taylor

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

Gavin Newsom

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

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

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

Jim Lovell

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

Emanuel Cleaver

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

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.

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.

Trey Parker

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

Robin Williams

There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.

Victoria Wood

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Robert Bloch

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Susan Orlean

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.

Studs Terkel

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Rudyard Kipling

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

Rudy Giuliani

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Tony Gilroy

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Shelley Morrison

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.