Herb Caen Quotes

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.

Herb Caen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997

Topics

FlowerGoodGirlJusticeSkyCity

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Joan Fontaine

FamilyFriendsCrownHeadDamage

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

John Lithgow

LifeEducationLearningKnowledgeMe

To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.

John R. Allen

PeaceWorldYouActingCivilization

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

America Ferrera

WomenBeautifulMeCurvesKindReal

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

HonestyManHonesty IsWithoutRare

I've always taken care of myself since I was young. I've always been active and eaten really well.

Stella Maxwell

MyselfCareYoungActiveAlways

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

Mink Stole

YouWantDamnTellAnybodyThing

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

Allison Pearson

FeelKindThingsSeemInterested

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill

OpinionPublic OpinionOnlyPublished

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

Wole Soyinka

LifeHumorPeopleTalkingYouWant

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

Sylvester McCoy

GoodMoneyTheatreStoryYouPlay

When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that's when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I'd just feel like it's selfish.

Sharon Van Etten

PastPeopleMeSongSelfishFeel

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Herb Caen