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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. -- Rudyard Kipling
East is East, and West is San Francisco -- O. Henry
San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality. -- Paul Kantner
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there? -- Herb Caen
I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved. -- Mark Twain
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me. -- Anthony Bourdain
You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away. -- John Steinbeck
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. -- Walter Cronkite
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms. -- Errol Flynn
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. -- Herb Caen
No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. -- William Saroyan
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world -- Oscar Wilde
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. -- William Saroyan
I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world. -- Joe DiMaggio
San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world -- Duke Ellington
The City that knows how. -- William Howard Taft
The cool, grey city of love. -- George Sterling
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. -- Jello Biafra
What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- O. Henry
I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here. -- Gary Snyder
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. -- Iris Chang
I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.' -- Herb Caen
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia. -- Tadashi Yanai
People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?' -- Davy Jones
In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas. -- J. R. Moehringer
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
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If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress. -- Elon Musk
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York. -- Mary Schmich
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly. -- Dylan Thomas
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. -- Jack Kerouac
In San Francisco, Haloween is redundant. -- Will Durst
In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant. -- Will Durst
San Francisco is poetry. Even the hills rhyme. -- Patricia Montandon
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I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. -- Steven Wright
I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook. -- Bruce Vilanch
San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates. -- Jeremy Sumpter
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories. -- Jack London
Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes. -- Gedde Watanabe
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. -- Susanna Kaysen
I have no desire to go back to San Francisco. -- Sara Zarr
Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken. -- Dashiell Hammett
I used to be a street singer in San Francisco. -- Gedde Watanabe
San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen -- Ambrose Bierce
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. -- Cecil Beaton
San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities -- Cecil Beaton
San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. -- Craig Venter
San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world. -- Rosalynn Carter
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I didn't like Los Angeles very much but I like San Francisco. -- Mick Ralphs
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. -- Herb Caen
Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence. -- Cindy Sheehan
There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco] -- Danielle Steel
The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing -- Nancy Peters
When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar. -- Steve Young
I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon. -- Kim Novak
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco -- Gene Fowler
The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality. -- Muddy Waters
Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world. -- Ed Lee
We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality. -- Gavin Newsom
We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season. -- Herb Caen
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting. -- Gavin Newsom
What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster. -- James Coulter
I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California. -- Danielle Steel
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting -- Gavin Newsom
There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth. -- Fulton J. Sheen
If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair. -- Scott McKenzie
Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful. -- Nikita Khrushchev
I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco. -- Ezra Koenig
If you have to be a one-hit wonder, then 'San Francisco' is the one to have. -- Scott McKenzie
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland. -- Tennessee Williams
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life. -- Imogen Cunningham
I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park. -- Danny Meyer
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I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here. -- Eddie Izzard
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history -- Gavin Newsom
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. -- Gavin Newsom
I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back! -- Nick Johnson
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. -- William Bernhardt
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco. -- Jane Smiley
San Francisco is a city with the assets of a metropolis without the disadvantages of size and industry. -- Jack Kenny
San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal -- Nathaniel Dorsky
San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there. -- Chita Rivera
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. -- Jose Ferreira
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive -- Gavin Newsom
I'm just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other. -- Twiggy
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world. -- Conrad Hilton
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive. -- Gavin Newsom
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital. -- James Bryce
I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly. -- Robert Kennedy
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San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city/small-town coolness to it. -- Dave Matthews
I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others. -- Doris Lessing
Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. -- Willie Brown
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. -- Dana Carvey
I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris. -- Sonia Rykiel
There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco. -- John Vanderslice
San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. -- William Saroyan
If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. -- Sarah Palin
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. -- Herb Caen
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. -- Eric Allin Cornell
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. -- Dave Barry
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather. -- Mark Twain
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) -- Nora Ephron
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. -- Wendell Pierce
Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of. -- Daniel Tosh
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. -- Christine Pelosi
I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco. -- Amy Irving
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. -- Stephen Breyer
San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here. -- Michael Franti

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