Herb Caen Quotes
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there (Herb Caen Quotes)
Logic is no answer to passion (Herb Caen Quotes)
We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy (Herb Caen Quotes)
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative (Herb Caen Quotes)
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor (Herb Caen Quotes)
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around (Herb Caen Quotes)
The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you (Herb Caen Quotes)
There are more of them than us (Herb Caen Quotes)
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long (Herb Caen Quotes)
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths (Herb Caen Quotes)
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned (Herb Caen Quotes)
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.’ (Herb Caen Quotes)
Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there. (Herb Caen Quotes)
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met. (Herb Caen Quotes)
God! I loove this city! (Herb Caen Quotes)
There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city (Herb Caen Quotes)
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever (Herb Caen Quotes)
The clock doesn’t matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to (Herb Caen Quotes)
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew (Herb Caen Quotes)
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn’t matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn’t sell any papers, it’s not a good column. It’s a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that’s the whole thing (Herb Caen Quotes)
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds (Herb Caen Quotes)
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met (Herb Caen Quotes)
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here (Herb Caen Quotes)
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams (Herb Caen Quotes)
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything (Herb Caen Quotes)