Florida Quotes · Page 10

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because…

— Diplo

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

— Mark Kurlansky

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

— Michael Moore

As one of the largest states in the country, Florida's vibrant diversity is a key part of our nation's story.

— Wayne Messam

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

— Marco Rubio

“The idea that DeSantis single-handedly made Florida a conservative paradise, they quietly griped, was complete fiction.”

— Matt Dixon

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

— Bill Maher

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

— John Cleese

There is a reality to the primary process, and you don't win primaries by being ahead in national polls. You win them…

— Rudy Giuliani

I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're…

— Allen West

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

— Curt Weldon

I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate.…

— Michele Bachmann

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in…

— David Plouffe

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes,…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No…

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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

— Henry Winkler

I get asked about the best games I've called, and as far as college football goes, the Florida-LSU environment was as good…

— Verne Lundquist

I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior…

— Drew Seeley

“His deep voice drifted to her through the crowd of women. “…my lady when she returns. Och, there ye are, Blossom,” Faolán…

— Shannon MacLeod

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter…

— Seth Shostak

I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple…

— Bart Millard

Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and…

— Douglas Preston

“The Aggregated Press has just learned the breakaway Rebel area now calling itself the “Democratic Republic of Florida'' has received official Sovereignty…

— C. Elmon Meade

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me…

— Diana Nyad

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

— Joseph Lowery

I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.

— Craig Sager

I have to admit that I wasn't much taken by Naples, Florida, or Eilat in Israel.

— Maureen Lipman

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

— Ric Keller

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

— Kevin Richardson

I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.

— Diana Nyad

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of…

— Dave Barry

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come…

— Dustin Poirier

Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer…

— Carl Hiaasen

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

— Patrick Murphy

As a candidate for Congress, I promised that I would I fight for the people of Florida in Congress, just like I…

— Michael Waltz

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

— Karen Russell

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would…

— Amanda Latona

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

— Gene Spafford

North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.

— John Fleischman

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

— T. J. MacGregor