(134 quotes found)
“It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.”
Oscar Wilde
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”
Mark Twain
“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
“The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures.”
R. Z. Sheppard
“If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.”
William Saroyan
“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.”
“No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.”
“[San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town.”
Will Rogers
“Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.”
William S. Gilbert
“Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.”
Michael O'Donoghue
