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«I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.»
Author: Hinton Helper
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Bowie, Bowie knife, California, finer, Francisco, furnish, guns, knives, liquors, pistols, prettier, purer, San, San Francisco, tobacco, truer, unbiased, visited
«If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair»
Author: J. B. Phillips
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
Francisco, hair, San, San Francisco, The San
«Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brew, brewed, brewing, brews, buck, bucks, buck up, Diego, hair of the dog, muscle, newspapers, Puget, Puget Sound, San, San Diego, tide, water dog
«It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.»
«Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.»
Author: Martina Navratilova
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
adopted, Angeles, beach, Big Country, Big Town, blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, Boston, brainy, brash, brawny, Chicago, Dallas, fort, forts, Fort Worth, Francisco, friendly, hedonistic, home in, inland, palm, Palm Beach, Palm Springs, peaceful, Philadelphia, rubs, San, San Francisco, sensuous, Town of, Virginia, Virginia Beach, waterway
«If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.»
«I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Birth,
Humanity
| Keywords:
brotherhood, brothers, Burma, Call Me, Diego, investment, investments, jealous, mutuality, parentage, possessive, relentless, San, San Diego, sibling, siblings, sisterhood, sisters, stand firm, work at
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
attractions, city, delightful, disappears, Francisco, odd, San, San Francisco, The Attractions, The San
«I was married once -- in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
certificate, certificates, destroyed, earthquake, earthquakes, Francisco, great year, legal, proves, San, San Francisco, The San
«[San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
city, Francisco, San, San Francisco, The City, The San, town, Town of
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