Mission San Carlos

Famous quotes containing the words mission, san and/or carlos:

    “The mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

    “We had won. Pimps got out of their polished cars and walked the streets of San Francisco only a little uneasy at the unusual exercise. Gamblers, ignoring their sensitive fingers, shook hands with shoeshine boys.... Beauticians spoke to the shipyard workers, who in turn spoke to the easy ladies.... I thought if war did not include killing, I’d like to see one every year. Something like a festival.”
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    “It’s the anarchy of poverty
    delights me, the old
    yellow wooden house indented
    among the new brick tenements”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)