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The best Quotes by Herb Caen
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Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist.
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
San Francisco
Logic is no answer to passion.
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Passion
Logic
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
City & Urban
Size
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.
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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
San Francisco
Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.
Anthony Bourdain
San Francisco
Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.
Wut in
Inside Out
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San Francisco
Pizza
Hawaii
I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
Kiersten White
in
The Chaos of Stars
Passion
Risk
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Colleen Hoover
in
Verity
Passion
If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.
Emma Watson
3
Hurting
Passion
Hate and love are just two words for passion.
Evelynn, Agony's Embrace
in
League of Legends
1
Passion
Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.
Rebecca Yarros
in
The Empyrean
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Iron Flame
Logic
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Mister Spock
in
Star Trek
1
Logic
Actually, I’m highly logical which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook.
Hermione Granger
in
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
9
Logic
Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters.
They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?"
Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
in
The Little Prince
59
Logic
A city is a concrete labyrinth in which our mind is lost.
(Musin Almat Zhumabekovich)
1
City & Urban
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
Billie Joe Armstrong
City & Urban
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
I. M. Pei
City & Urban
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Desmond Morris
1
City & Urban
A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.
Zeus in
Hercules
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Heart
Heros
Size
"Size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."
Fred and George Weasley
in
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2
Ginny Weasley
Size
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
Voldemort / Tom Riddle
in
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
1
Size
The Lord doesn't price the size of things as much as the love with which they were done.
Teresa of Ávila
1
Size
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin
8
Alcohol
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"There's perfect men around every corner", said God an made the Earth round.
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Singles & Dating
Working out makes people more comfortable with their naked bodies. So does Tequila.
3
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Being naked
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin
2
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Santa Claus
Bad Girls
Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.
Ryan Reynolds
- September 2025
Deadpool
But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.
Donald Trump
- July 2025
The Epstein Files
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