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.
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.
stuck gloomy mutual
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.