Herb Caen
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caenwas a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 April 1916
CountryUnited States of America
Herb Caen quotes about
cities san-francisco
God! I loove this city!
baseball matter clock
The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.
lost loved-and-lost attorney
It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.
humorous san-francisco used
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
self tactics satire
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
self satisfaction smugness
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
crazy odds concrete-jungle
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
stuck gloomy mutual
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
san-francisco building wells
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
san-francisco heaven one-day
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
football baseball weather
We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
order interesting redundancy
We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.
dollar-bills dollars rams
You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding hundred dollar bills.
broads given uncomplicated
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.