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
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.
cake would-be towers
The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
broads given uncomplicated
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
cutting play style
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.