271 Quotes About Florida

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

Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!

It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.

You begin to understand why public libraries are so popular with the indigent,: I said. " A comfortable space where you don't have to literally buy time just to sit there?"Glenn agreed. "Sign me up.

Having Miami in a state like Florida makes no sense. You may as well put Los Angeles in the middle of Arkansas. It's not connected, it's just bright and loud and big and... there.

The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously—one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space.

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?