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
clash eternal opinions produce state
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
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One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
nice san-francisco people
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
long worry attention
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long...
passion answers logic
Logic is no answer to passion.
cities san-francisco viewpoints
There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.
dream cities vision
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
baseball moving games
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
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.