Top 48 Don Francisco Quotes
#1. Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires ... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause.
Ayn Rand
#2. I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have.
Jon Oringer
#3. 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' - Lib McGovern
Pat Frank
#4. I'm just at the beginning of my career and because of that I don't consider myself a star.
Francisco Rodriguez
#5. The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.
Armistead Maupin
#6. I love you in a language that I don't fully understand. In words that I haven't found enough courage to forklift out of my chest.
Rudy Francisco
#7. Don LaFontaine was very intelligent. He used to say to me, "Always save your money, son". And I said, "Can I start doing voiceovers?" And he said, "You can, Pablo. You can. Don't worry, we'll talk about that later."
Pablo Francisco
#8. 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
#9. San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.
George Halas
#10. When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.
Francisco Costa
#11. If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.
Chicken John
#12. I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.
Woody Allen
#13. I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping.
Francisco Costa
#14. Her dresses. Her shoes. A bottle of her perfume. You don't need much to remember someone, Francisco. Even one thing will do.
Mitch Albom
#15. What's better? To hurt from your want or to be so dead inside that you don't want anything? I don't want anything.
Francisco X Stork
#16. Boy, you really break things down, don't you?'
Some say it is an illness.'
We should all be so ill.
Francisco X Stork
#17. That's what faith is, isn't it? Following the music when we don't hear it.
Francisco X Stork
#18. There's quiet because you don't need to say anything, and then there's quiet because you don't want to say something.
Marisol
Francisco X Stork
#19. As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.
Nancy Pelosi
#21. I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
Doris Lessing
#22. I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing.
Pablo Francisco
#23. I don't know about the time those songs were written. But he was jamming with someone in Colorado or San Francisco, and I'm sure he was working on the lyrics right up to the show because they were really relevant for the situation.
Krist Novoselic
#24. I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
Francisco Costa
#25. We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
Sarah Palin
#26. You shouldn't talk to people about the future if you don't believe in one for yourself.
Francisco X Stork
#27. The guys in New York don't know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.
Larry Kramer
#28. I always want to have San Francisco as my home and my base. I'm a business reporter - that's what I do and what I enjoy - and I don't know another place on the planet that would be as fascinating to cover.
Sarah Lacy
#29. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Gordon Sinclair
#30. I hope you make it through law school still feeling like you do.' 'Why wouldn't I?' I asked him. And he answered, 'Sometimes you start off going one way and you eng up going another way and you don't know how it happened.
Francisco X Stork
#31. You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two.
Francisco Costa
#32. If you came here dressed like this in order not to let me notice how lovely you are," he said, "you miscalculated. You're lovely. I wish I could tell you what a relief it is to see a face that's intelligent though a woman's. But you don't want to hear it. That's not what you came here for.
Ayn Rand
#33. I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.
Augusten Burroughs
#34. We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
John Breaux
#35. 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
#36. I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
Mike Krieger
#37. Some say, don't burn your bridges.
I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,
and watch it
turn to ash.
There's always more than one way
to cross the water.
Rudy Francisco
#38. Maybe I don't feel what others feel. I have no way of knowing. But I do feel. It's just that what I feel does not elicit tears. What I feel when others cry is more like a dry, empty aloneness, like I'm the only person left in the world.
Francisco X Stork
#39. There are two different questions: Do you want to die? and Do you want to live? But in the darkness of my mind, not wanting to live and wanting to die don't seem like two things you can pull apart. They're wrapped up in the no more that I feel right now.
Francisco X Stork
#40. I don't think there's anything else we can do for him as long as he's in denial. No one's going to convince him that he's sick.
Xavier Francisco Amador
#41. You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.
Don Johnson
#42. In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.
Charles M. Schwab
#43. Everyday, Athena. Everyday, each of us has to face a battle against our own shadows. Don't think you're any different. But this is why we have people who love us. If you can't fight, then I will.
Karen Francisco
#45. I don't know if any of this would have happened if we had been at home ... Would we have crammed ourselves into the bathroom of a San Francisco restaurant to play her song? I doubt it. There's something about distance, being removed from what's familiar, that let's things happen.
Nina LaCour
#46. If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
Alice Waters
#47. People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
Francisco Costa
#48. Born at Letterman Army Hospital. I never actually lived in San Francisco. It's not my home town, but then, I don't have one. I'm a nomad ... a gypsy ... an Army Brat. Put me on an airplane, send me anywhere. That's where I belong ... anywhere.
Marc Curtis
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