“By 10:00 P.M. it decided to pull out all the stops: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. An early election-eve edition of the San Francisco… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots,… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“I was born and raised in San Francisco, which explains my willingness to stay in a city that's historically been full of… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandela’s… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind… — Raoul Duke Copy Share Image
From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“Every morning a great wall of fog descends upon the city of San Francisco. It begins far out at sea. It forms… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The Hollywood comedienne Gracie Allen was so secretive about her age that even her husband, the fellow performer George Burns, didn't know… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
“He crossed toward me, a grin curving his mouth-then he stopped. "Should I get the other blade?" I looked at the sword… — Lee Nichols Copy Share Image
On any day in the Mission in San Francisco, you can see a hand-painted sign that is kind of funky, and maybe… — Margaret Kilgallen Copy Share Image
San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Sorry . . . thank you. Good night,” she said finally. She pivoted and headed for the house. He stared blankly. Thank you, good night?… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Throughout her political career, Vice President Harris has never shied away from issues of race. In fact, the former senator from California,… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994]… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
“Aleksander’s feet cut through the fog that had engulfed around them as he kept the two women in his sight. The two… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
Homelessness isn't just an issue in San Francisco. It's an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need… — London Breed Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if I'm just memorializing my youth when I spent all this time outdoors. I always envisioned my adult life… — Tycho Copy Share Image
But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In… — George Zimmer Copy Share Image
The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
“I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He sat up, his chest moving, his mouth open as if he'd run the annual San Francisco Bay to Breakers race in… — Leigh Riker Copy Share Image
One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages.… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“...San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
This is where the question always come up, "Aren't you going to split the vote?" To which the obvious answer is: Well… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the long sea voyage from Manila to San Francisco, doctors discovered that Taft’s incision was not healing properly. It was “opened… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image