#francisco

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco. ↗

— Gedde Watanabe

#i #san #san francisco #singer #street

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes. ↗

— Gedde Watanabe

#back #francisco #lived #san #san francisco

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco. ↗

— Gary Hart

#hart #leave #san #san francisco #will

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#competition #francisco #got #i #lucky

I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away. ↗

— Christine McVie

#albums #away #buying #cassettes #couple

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

#believer #bennett #daydream #ever #francisco

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years. ↗

— George Saunders

#built #cool #desert #disney #dubai

Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#barcelona #berlin #chicago #coffee #constantly

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

#earthquake #else #even #francisco #help