#francis

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#come #ever #francisco #important #nothing

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#economic #francisco #history #intense #lived

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#franciscans #historically #much #other #san

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils ↗

— Francis Bacon

#francis-bacon #art

Belize: Hell or heaven? [Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance] Belize: Like San Francisco. Roy Cohn: A city. Good. I was worried... it'd be a garden. I hate that shit. Belize: Mmmm. Big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up catty corner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, fierce gusts of gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens. Roy Cohn: Isaiah. Belize: Prophet birds, Roy. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cowspit streamers in the wind. And voting booths. Roy Cohn: And a dragon atop a golden horde. Belize: And everyone in Balencia gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain't there. Roy Cohn: And Heaven? Belize: That was Heaven, Roy. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#drama #heaven #san-francisco #music

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#boring #day #dropping #drunk #dylan

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#electing #francisco #grew #i #judges

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#angeles #believe #boston #businesses #cherish

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#easy #francisco #i #i think #life

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#being #college #creative #creative writing #francisco