Florida Quotes:

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

- Addison Mizner

topic: Simple, Florida, Cities

I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

- Alex Prager

source: "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

topic: New York, Florida, London

I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.

- Allen West

topic: Florida, Oil, Issues, Primaries

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.

- Allen West

topic: Mean, Florida, House, Registration, South Florida

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

- Amy Seimetz

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Crazy, Florida, People

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

- Amy Tan

topic: Florida, Cuba, Dry

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

- Andre Caldwell

topic: Football, Revenge, Florida

I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Retirement, Florida, Looks

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

- Angela Bassett

topic: School, Florida, Firsts

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

- Anne Hull

source: "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

topic: Florida, Mermaid, Paradise, Citrus, Northerners

I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.

- Ariana Grande

topic: Nice, Florida, House

You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons. The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn't the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read "Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk"?

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Health, Beer, Florida, Staples

In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.

- Bill Frist

topic: Florida, People, United States

What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.

- Bill Maher

topic: Brother, Florida, Silver, Silver Platter

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

- Billy Gardell

topic: Florida, Years, Two, Tampa

I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.

- Billy Graham

topic: Night, Florida, People, Cold Night

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Sports, Party, Florida

August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

- Blaize Clement

source: Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.43, Minotaur Books

topic: Florida, August, Way

I know there are California oranges and Florida oranges. When I'm in Florida, I like Florida oranges. Today, I think California oranges are the best, of course.

- Bob Dole

topic: Thinking, Florida, California

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

- Brit Hume

topic: Florida, Sampling, Development

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

- Bruce Catton

topic: War, Men, Florida, American Civil War, New Mexico

It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

- Bubba Watson

topic: Dream, Florida, Green, Bubba

Florida is a very healing place.

- Burt Reynolds

topic: Healing, Florida

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

- Candace Cameron

topic: Mom, Mother, Florida, Staples, Getting Dressed

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Book, Florida, Sound

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Florida, Littles, Way, Theme Parks

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

- Channing Tatum

topic: Girl, Florida, Dancing

President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.

- Charlie Crist

source: "Crist endorses Obama". www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.

topic: Strong, Mean, Florida

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

- Charlie Crist

topic: Moving, Thinking, Florida

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

- Cliff Stearns

topic: Fighting, Florida, Law, Protect And Serve

The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.

- Clyde Butcher

topic: Falling In Love, Florida, People

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

- Corrine Brown

topic: Florida, Law, Two, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

- Corrine Brown

topic: Country, Florida, World

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

- Corrine Brown

topic: Florida, People, Survival

Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

- Curt Weldon

topic: Florida, People, Special, Tampa, Special Forces

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

- Dan Gelber

topic: Reality, Florida, Tv Shows, New Normal

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

- Dan Gelber

topic: Strong, School, Florida, Financial Investment, Raising The Bar

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.

- Dan Marino

topic: Change, Children, Florida, Autistic Children, Autistic

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Funny, School, Florida

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

- Darrell Hammond

topic: Home, Florida, Parent, Parents Home

The leader of the controversial Church of Scientology routinely physically attacked members of his management team, according to former executives, a Florida newspaper has reported. Defectors from the controversial organisation who spoke to the St Petersburg Times told the paper that David Miscavige was "constantly denigrating and beating on people". Mike Rinder, the church's spokesman for decades, said he was attacked by Miscavige some 50 times.

- David Miscavige

topic: Team, Florida, People

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

- David Talbot

topic: Florida, White, House, Readership

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

- Davy Jones

topic: Retirement, Reading, Florida

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Opportunity, Florida, Land, Difficult Challenges

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Taken, Florida, Environmental, South Florida, Everglades

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida,

- Diana Nyad

topic: Swimming, Thinking, Florida

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

- Don Winslow

topic: Florida, People, Surfing, Surfing The Web, East Coast

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Florida, Found, Oneself

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

- Edna Buchanan

source: Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

topic: Florida, Cities, Roots

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

- Edwidge Danticat

topic: Children, Florida, States

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

- Eric Ripert

topic: Winter, Florida, Weather, Good Weather, Seafood

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

- F. Lee Bailey

topic: Winning, Florida, Cases, South Florida

Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Florida, it's strawberry season- shortcake, waffles, berries and cream will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.

- Gail Mazur

source: Gail Mazur (1995). “The Common”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

topic: Spring, Florida, Air, Menus, Snowdrops

Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

- Gary Danielson

topic: Moving, Doctors, Florida, Tebow, Gators

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

- Gary Danielson

topic: Mistake, Team, Florida

We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

- Gary Danielson

topic: Florida, Worried

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

- Gaston Caperton

topic: Strong, Commitment, Florida, Placement

While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

- Gene Spafford

topic: Florida, Jehovah, Facts, Tampa

It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.

- Gerald Kogan

topic: Florida, Years, Punishment

The fans made a difference in the outcome of the game. It was one of those games that Florida really did have to beat the team on the field and in the stands.

- Gerry DiNardo

topic: Team, Differences, Florida

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

- Grace Slick

source: "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.

topic: Florida, Police, Hawaii, Police Department

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

- Groucho Marx

topic: Inspiration, Florida, Years, Nickels

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

- Helen Van Slyke

topic: Florida, Age, Moved

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

- Henry Winkler

topic: Play, Florida, Taught, Orlando, Fish Tanks

Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.

- Hilary Rhoda

topic: Home, Vacation, Florida

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

- Jack Youngblood

topic: Florida, One Day, Gators

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

- Jacques Pepin

topic: Simple, Florida, Pbs, Time And Money, Saving Time

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

- Jake Owen

topic: Florida, Play, Shows

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

- Jake Owen

topic: Sports, Florida, Water

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

- James Carville

topic: Fighting, Florida, Want

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

- James Lovelock

topic: Florida, Long, Gone

A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

- Jay Leno

topic: Reading, Men, Florida, This Guy, Arrested

President Bush announced tonight that he believes in democracy and that democracy can exist in Iraq. They can have a strong economy, they can have a good health care plan, and they can have a free and fair voting. Iraq? We can't even get this in Florida.

- Jay Leno

topic: Strong, Believe, Florida, Strong Economy, Good Health Care

It's cold out. It's even cold in Florida. So cold today that Katherine Harris put on a third layer of makeup.

- Jay Leno

topic: Makeup, Florida, Layers

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Organization, Florida, Government, Faith Based

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Independent, Florida, Voters, Independent Voters

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Thinking, Florida, President, Fired Up

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Florida, Enforcement, Want

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Unique, Florida, Diversity

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

- Jeff Flake

topic: Florida, States, Feels, Farms

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

- Jeff Miller

topic: Thinking, Florida, People

I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.

- Jemima Kirke

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Vacation, Islands, Florida, Weird Places

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

- Jennifer Sky

topic: Beautiful, Florida, Ordinary

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Moving, Funny Relationship, Florida, Off The Wall, Reader's Digest

They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.

- Jessica Hahn

topic: Feel Better, Florida, Needs

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

- Jimmy Johnson

topic: Cowboy, Florida, Wanted, South Florida

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

- Joe Tex

topic: Florida, Years, Parent, South Florida, Portugal

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

- John Fund

topic: Florida, Waiting, Minorities, Exaggerating, Wait For Him

Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500 firefighters on the Wallow Fire and all of us in the firefighting community, our heartfelt condolences go out to their families and their co-workers. “If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor those who make it their professional business to put it out?

- John Godfrey Saxe

topic: Condolences, Fire, Florida, Kindling, Prometheus

For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.

- John Hench

topic: Florida, Ideas, Done, Walt

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

- John Lahr

topic: Father, Florida, Two, Arrivals, Godot

I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and made up my mind to go through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia to Florida, thence to Cuba, thence to some part of South America; but it will be only a hasty walk. I am thankful, however, for so much.

- John Muir

topic: Journey, Florida, Kentucky, South America, Louisville

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

- John Oliver

topic: Gun, Law, Florida

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

- Joseph Lowery

source: "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

topic: Virginia, Florida, Texas

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

- Joy Fielding

topic: Home, Florida, Waiting

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

- Juan Williams

topic: College, Florida, Presidential, Pivotal, Electoral College

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

- Karen Russell

topic: Florida, Swamps, Alligators, South Florida

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

- Kate Upton

source: "Kate Upton: American Bombshell" by Mark Kirbi, www.gq.com. June 19, 2012.

topic: Horse, Florida, Jeans, Bathing Suits

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which theyre not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

- Katherine Harris

source: "Katherine Harris Unhappy With 'Recount'". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2008.

topic: Florida, Law, Justice

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

- Katherine Harris

topic: Florida, Law, People

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

- Katherine Harris

source: "Katherine Harris Discusses Her Senate Run". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2005.

topic: Florida, Talking, Support

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

- Kelly Preston

topic: Stars, Florida, Closest Friends

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

- Ken Jennings

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, Florida, Apples, Jigsaw, Crocodiles

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

- Kendrick Meek

topic: Florida, Class, People

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

- Kendrick Meek

topic: Jobs, Florida, Dollars, South Florida

I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.

- Kim Alexis

topic: Running, Florida, Nine

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

- Larry Gatlin

topic: Mother, Florida, Political, Florence Nightingale, Crimea

BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: We looked at it. We knew it would make things tougher. But how many chances does anyone get to play Florida State? It was too good to pass up.

- LaVell Edwards

topic: Retirement, Florida, Eight, Byu, Florida State

BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: I do know this, that I'm finally a little bit more relieved than I've been for some time. Patti (his wife) and I have talked about it a lot and came to that conclusion (to retire). I had a feeling of serenity, if you will. In fact, I was feeling so serene that I put in a film of Florida State, and that got me out of that mood in a hurry.

- LaVell Edwards

topic: Time, Retirement, Florida

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

- Lee Majors

source: "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

topic: Children, Florida, Years, Burned Out

Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.

- Linda Gray

topic: Home, Florida, President, Orlando, Explaining Things

God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

- Lou Dobbs

source: "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. January 6, 2006.

topic: God, Florida, Bless

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

- Mandy Moore

topic: Florida, Musical, Singing, Orlando, Sony

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Florida, Years, House, Majority Leader

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

source: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.217, Booklassic

topic: Moving, Florida, Passing

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Philosophy, Animal, Florida, South Florida, Intrinsic Value

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

- Marjory Stoneman Douglas

topic: Country, Lying, Florida, South Florida, Everglades

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.

- Mark Foley

topic: Country, New York, Florida, Travel And Tourism, Nevada

It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.

- Martin Luther King III

topic: Father, Party, Florida, Disingenuous

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

- Mary Wesley

topic: Florida, People, Boring

I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting to see a celebrity there. When you throw on a hat and glasses, no one really looks at you twice - because why would you be in Florida? People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

- Megan Fox

topic: Glasses, Florida, People

I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

- Mick Taylor

source: "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

topic: Country, New York, Florida

I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same.

- Mickey Rivers

topic: Differences, Florida, Climax

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

- Miles Teller

topic: Florida, People, Towns

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

- Natalie Jeremijenko

source: "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register." by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

topic: Florida, Environmental, Hurricanes, Environmental Change

I met my wife on Spring break when I was in college. I was at the University of Notre Dame. She was at the University of New Hampshire. I bumped into her in Florida and told her the next day that I was going to marry her and 20 or something years later here we are.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Spring, College, Florida, Notre Dame, Spring Break

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

- Patricia Ireland

topic: Issues, Florida, African American, Discarded, Personal Interest

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.

- Paula Poundstone

topic: Cat, Home, Florida

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

- Peter Fonda

topic: Years, Florida, Association, Florida State

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

- Piers Anthony

source: Sffworld.com Interview, www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

topic: Home, Land, Florida, Home State

The one thing I did learn at Florida State, I learned to talk trash, believe that

- Randy Moss

topic: Believe, Florida, Trash, Florida State

The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

- Randy Wayne White

topic: Ideas, Florida, Labyrinth, Peninsulas, Emerging

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

- Ric Keller

topic: Vacation, Numbers, Florida, Orlando

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

- Ric Keller

topic: Beach, Florida, East, Drilling

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

- Rick Santorum

topic: Moving, Florida, Museums, Confederate Flag

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

- Rick Scott

topic: Florida, Bragging

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

- Rick Scott

topic: Florida, World, Exciting

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

- Robert Lewis Hinkle

source: "Federal judge strikes down Florida's ban on same-sex marriage". www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2014.

topic: Sex, Gay, Florida, Interracial Marriage

Miss Piggy and Chicken Little may rest easy, but gay people in Florida and California can no longer get married.

- Samantha Ronson

source: "Samantha Ronson: Defeat of Gay Measures 'Frightening'" by Mike Fleeman, people.com. November 6, 2008.

topic: Gay, California, Florida, Miss Piggy, Rest Easy

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

- Sanford I. Weill

topic: New York, Florida, Parent, Ninth Grade

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

- Scott Putesky

topic: Florida, Rockets, Necks

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

- Sidney Poitier

topic: Florida, Racism

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

- Stan Lee

topic: Girl, Thinking, Florida, Tampa, Lap Dances

The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.

- Steve Southerland

topic: Taken, Fighting, Florida

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

- T. J. MacGregor

source: T. J. MacGregor (1990). “Kin Dread”, Fawcett Books

topic: Florida, Unseen, Spirit, Everglades, Implied

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

- Ted Bell

source: "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.

topic: Florida, Water, Lagoons

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

- Terry Brooks

topic: Writing, Florida, Connections, Alligators

Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.

- Tim Dorsey

topic: Florida, People, Drug, Chewing, Tubes

A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

- Tim Dorsey

source: Tim Dorsey (2012). “Pineapple Grenade: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

topic: Beach, Florida, Legs, Prosthetics, Bumper

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

- Tom Feeney

topic: Two, Florida, Aftermath, Margarita

Starting in 1994, with the Republican election of Congress, I think [Rush] Limbaugh made a difference in electing the Republican majority. In the following three elections, he made the difference holding the majority. And in 2000, in the presidential race in Florida, he was the difference between Gore and Bush winning Florida, and thus the Presidency.

- Tony Blankley

topic: Winning, Thinking, Florida

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

- Tony Curtis

topic: Florida, Pieces, World

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

- Tucker Max

source: Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

topic: Florida, Intellectual, Levels, South Florida

But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

- Urban Meyer

topic: Player, Florida, Color, Travesty

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

- Vanilla Ice

source: "Is this it?". Interview with Alex Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2007.

topic: Real, Florida, Gold

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Florida, Law, People

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Florida, Decision, Said, Court Decision

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Hands, Florida, Want

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Beach, Spring, Florida

The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.

- Walt Disney

topic: Heart, Epcot, Florida

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

- Wes Montgomery

topic: Night, Men, Florida, Louisville

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

- Wesley Snipes

topic: College, Florida, Competition, Musical Theatre, Mime

[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

- Will Cuppy

topic: Florida, Three, Alligators, Footnotes

Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.

- Wilson Mizner

topic: Brother, Florida, Little Brother

I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art and stuff like that, so I wasn't doing any graffiti at that time, so I'd say from about 2000 to 2006, I wasn't doing any graffiti.

- Alec Monopoly

source: Source: www.askmen.com

topic: Beach, Art, Florida, Palm Beach

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

- Clara Jeffery

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Gun, Florida, Law, Stand Your Ground

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

- Craig Fugate

topic: Florida, Debt, States

I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida thing. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents.

- David Mandel

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Florida, Interesting, President, Interesting Stuff

I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.

- John Vanderslice

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Florida, Confusing, Sound, Babysitter

I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It's confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California.

- Laura Harrington

source: "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.

topic: Spring, Thinking, Florida, South Florida

We don't have anyone with bad haircuts, which is a good thing. Louis Delmas has some pretty nice dreads. He's a Florida boy, so they know how to do it. He gets the title.

- Nate Burleson

topic: Nice, Boys, Florida, Bad Haircuts

Why do you think there's so many thousands of Cuban doctors in Florida? Because they all had to leave Cuba. Because doctors were rich, and so the [Fidel] Castro government began confiscating all their property. Not much different from this plan to tax you at a higher rate if you and your family, you and your spouse make over $250,000. You're rich! So they must confiscate more your money.

- Rafael Cruz

topic: Thinking, Doctors, Florida

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.

- Rosie O'Donnell

topic: Mother, Kids, Florida

My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato. But it was a huge disaster because the tomato didn't taste good. And then my dad started his own genetics company and I began doing that with him. He and I ran a genetics company for 10 years. And so I sold seeds to Florida.

- Sanjay Rawal

topic: Dad, Florida, Years, Monsanto

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

- Sanjay Rawal

topic: Real, Florida, Segregation

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.

- Taraka Larson

topic: Growing Up, Florida, Texas

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

- Tavoris Cloud

topic: Mom, Florida, Woods

I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

- Bill Burton

topic: Thinking, Florida, Ohio

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

- Brandon Thomas

topic: Nice, Journey, Florida

I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

- Carlos Mencia

topic: New York, Florida, California, Honduras

Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

- Red Buttons

topic: Cancer, Feet, Florida, Jet Engines, Blackouts

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked

- Rosanna Arquette

topic: Photography, Beach, Florida, Bathing Suits

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

- Jim Evans

topic: Spring, Team, Florida, Spring Training, Florida State

In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.

- John Brabender

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Winning, Florida, Ohio

To me, the logical path then is where could have [Mitt] Romney maybe have won and didn't? And you look at Ohio, Florida. You're still not there. Now you have got to win either Pennsylvania or Michigan. And I think Pennsylvania is probably a little bit more doable than Michigan, but, again, neither one of those states have the Republicans won since 1988.

- John Brabender

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Winning, Thinking, Florida

Having lived in Florida for as long as you did as well, Jeb Bush has never really been that great of a politician. He's benefited from a lot of good luck.He torched his own campaign in '94, he had a weak Democratic opponent in '98, he benefited from the Clinton boom and got out before the Bush bust.

- Joy-Ann Reid

source: "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

topic: Good Luck, Florida, Long

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

- Jay Leno

topic: War, Winning, Florida, Timetables

A second Homeland Security official has been arrested, a 49-year-old guy named Frank Figueroa, he was caught exposing and fondling himself to a teenage girl in a shopping mall in Florida. Do you realize? If Osama bin Laden was a 14-year old girl, we would have had him by now. ... Who is going to start protecting us from the Department of Homeland Security? ... It kind of makes you long for the good old wholesome days of the Clinton administration.

- Jay Leno

topic: Girl, Teenage, Florida, Old Guys, Department Of Homeland Security

Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'

- Jay Leno

topic: Florida, California, Long

I bought my parents some stuff. That feels kind of good to be able to do that. I got them a place in Florida. I think I'm allowed to say that - I hope my dad doesn't get mad at me. But I don't spend money on myself. I don't like myself enough yet. But the people I love, I like spending the cash on them.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Dad, Thinking, Florida

People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on vacation in Florida.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Vacation, Florida, People

Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.

- Jeb Bush

source: "All In With Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. September 23, 2016.

topic: Gambling, Florida, Casinos

You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.

- Jeb Bush

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Gambling, Florida, Casinos

I'm for higher standards measured in an intellectually honest way, with abundant school choice, ending social promotion. And I know how to do this because as governor of the state of Florida I created the first statewide voucher program in the country, the second statewide voucher program, in the country and the third statewide voucher program in the country.

- Jeb Bush

source: Jeb Bush at GOP primary debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

topic: Country, School, Florida, Higher Standards, Vouchers

It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.

- Stephen Young

topic: Home, Careers, Florida, Home State

Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Winning, Florida, Eyebrows, Touchdowns, Gators

The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

- Frank Luntz

topic: Powerful, Florida, Phrases, Call To Action

I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done."

- Steven Wright

topic: Dog, New York, Florida

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

- Susan Orlean

source: Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

topic: Thinking, Florida, Order, Order In The Universe

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

- Gabrielle Zevin

topic: Writing, Grandmother, Florida, Ibm, Three Year Olds