Francisco Bay Area Quotes

#1. I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war ... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

Pete Stark

#2. The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

David Batstone

#3. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#4. She ran a streak of foundation under each eye, highlighter down the bridge of her nose, and bronzer beneath each cheekbone - a layer of armor before battle. Because that's what these parties were to her, a war on all the heartbreaking boys in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jessica Taylor

#5. The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

Jose Ferreira

#6. For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Mitch Kapor

#7. All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#8. The cool, grey city of love.

George Sterling

#9. I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

Mark Twain

#10. You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Mikhail Gorbachev

#11. I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

Martin Henderson

#12. TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Richard LaGravenese

#13. And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

Eddie Campbell

#14. I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

Ezra Koenig

#15. It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

Paulo Coelho

#16. You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

Ramakrishna

#17. The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here.

Billy Graham

#18. He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

Teresa Lo

#19. If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

Gretchen Carlson

#20. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#21. If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

Gary Numan

#22. In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.

Conrad Hilton

#23. He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

Bille August

#24. Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Frank Sinatra

#25. I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

Elizabeth I