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  • It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

  • Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

    Herb Caen (1958). “New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area”
  • I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.

    Home   Men   Yankees  
  • Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.

    Dream   Cities   Names  
  • I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light.

    Thinking   Light   Fog  
    Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.
  • 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.

    Girl   Flower   Dark  
    Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”
  • When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

    Source: www.christianpost.com
  • Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

  • I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

    Guy   Bay Area   Areas  
  • I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

    Bay Area   Areas   Native  
    "Bay Area native Jon Huntsman Jr. may run in 2012". Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. May 25, 2011.
  • You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

  • Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  • Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

  • One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

  • A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

  • There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

  • I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in the Bay area, and they taught me about the game. They taught me about the subtleties of the game, but they also gave me the game and let me enjoy it. That's the main thing, whether it's TV or radio. You have to give the fans the game, and if it's a Giants broadcast, the vast majority are Giants fans. In terms of story lines, most would be about the Giants.

  • By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.

    Running   Two   Bay Area  
  • San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

    Art   Block   Home  
  • It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

    Wall   Fog   Blue  
    Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin
  • When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.

    Doors   Nyu   Trying  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

  • We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.

  • What's exciting about the Bay Area, is that people are not waiting for permission from the industry to make movies - unlike Los Angeles or New York, where you can get stuck into that desire of raising a big budget, or working with the studios.

  • We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

    "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.
  • Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

  • Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, its much easier. Its the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

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