"A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city."

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Source : Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

Herb Caen

#Girl Quotes #Flower Quotes #Dark Quotes

“If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.”
“You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

Source : "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.
“We don't give 'em no respect..none!”
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
“To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is cruel as well as unconstitutional. Classifying some families, and especially their children, as of lesser value should be repugnant to all those in this nation who profess to believe in "family values."”
“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”
“The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

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