Sanfrancisensis Quotes & Sayings

It is more likely that coaches have players go down in games they are losing than games they are winning. — George M. Gilbert

Something impractical cannot be beautiful. — Otto Wagner

No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better. — Erin Bow

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. — George Eliot

I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. We cannot compromise with it. It is what it is, it has been what it has been, and it will be what it has been. So it doesn't change. What is needed is that we have to change. So, what is the truth? Truth is that you are not this body, this mind; you are not these emotions, intellect or conditionings. Nor you are ego. So what are you ? You are the pure Spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that seven-eighths of the iceberg, the ballast of the past, a general past, the place from which we came.
That is why history should be taught in school. to all children, as much of it as possible. If you have no sense of the past, no access to historical narrative, you are afloat, untethered; you cannot see yourself as a part of the narrative, you cannot place yourself within a context. You will not have an understanding of time, and a respect for memory and its subtle victory over the remorselessness of time. — Penelope Lively

Be open, and trust that God knows what you need and when you need it, — Stephan Labossiere

In the name of violence; offenders are only primitive henchmen. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute. — Michelle Rodriguez

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant. — Jonathan Haidt

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. — Joyce Carol Oates

Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much. — Usain Bolt

Publish. Be damned. Repeat. — Tassa Desalada