#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

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie. ↗

— Colleen Haskell

#ad #after #agency #asked #country

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. ↗

— O. Henry

#californians #east #francisco #inhabitants #merely

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#between #day #disappointing #fear #feeling

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#disasters #ensure #event #franciscans #francisco

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#businesses #challenges #compensation #cost #employee

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#becomes #between #city #divided #downtown

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#come #done #east #fast #francisco

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#closed #entire #francisco #go #go home