Florida Quotes - Page 12

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

  T. J. MacGregor

  Unseen, Spirit, Everglades

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  College, Competition, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Development

  4 Copy quote

• As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker.

  George W. Bush

  Team, Humor, Political

  "Bush, Cheney, Powell Meet at Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas". www.cnn.com. November 30, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Gary Danielson

  Mistake, Team, Tennessee

  4 Copy quote

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

  Gary Danielson

  Worried, Happens

  6 Copy quote

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

  Jeb Bush

  Enforcement, Want, Death Penalty

  "If You Think Jeb Bush Is A Moderate, Then You Missed His 1994 Campaign" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Anne Hull

  Mermaid, Nineteen, Paradise

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ought to be bragging about Florida!

  Rick Scott

  Bragging, Ought

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Law, People, States

  6 Copy quote

• If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're 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

  Law, Justice, Uniforms

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Karen Russell

  Swamps, Alligators, Wrestler

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Don Winslow

  People, Surfing, East

  6 Copy quote

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

  Bubba Watson

  Dream, Green, Jackets

  53 Copy quote

• Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Country, Couple

  18 Copy quote

• 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

  Children, Apples, Maps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Vacation, People, Tough

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Christian, Religious, Jehovah

  22 Copy quote

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

  F. Lee Bailey

  Winning, Somewhere Else, Cases

  8 Copy quote

• In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.

  Muhammad Ali

  Smart, Kentucky, Names

  Source: thefederalist.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Ocean, Yellowstone

  Source: therumpus.net

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

  Michael Moore

  Popular Vote, Vote, Knows

  "BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore". March 13, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Dog, New York, Done

  7 Copy quote

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

  Brandon Thomas

  Nice, Journey, Clubs

  4 Copy quote

• The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.

  Barry Manilow

  Dark, Night, Years

  "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source