Florida Quotes
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I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
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More Florida Quotes
I am advising the former President, the governor of Florida and the President of the United States. I guess you could say I rule the world.
— 2003 On her political power. Quoted in Newsweek, 31 Mar.
What has come to trouble me most over past weeks is the suspicion that if the hanging chads in Florida had gone the other way and Al Gore had been elected, we would not now be about to commit British troops.
Robin Cook— 2003 Speech to the House of Commons, following his resignation as Leader of the House,17 Mar.
[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
will cuppy— The Alligator
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— Siddique, Haroon (June 22, 2009). "Scientology leader David Miscavige 'physically attacked staff'". The Guardian (Guardian News and Media Limited).
Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.
wilson mizner— Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Well, Foley is responsible for it, and the voters in Florida, I guess, who elected him. Maybe they should have known better.
william "bill" kristol— [1] Responding if Republican house leadership bears any responsibility for failing to properly address inappropriate emails allegedly sent by former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to an underage male congressional page. (October 4, 2006)
I would have felt better if she had followed the Florida law. I suspect most people faced with the same situation would have done what she did.
judith krug— Referring to Kathleen Hensman, a Delray Beach, Florida public librarian informing police about 9/11 suspects having used computers in the library where she works"A Nation Challenged: Questions of Confidentiality; Competing Principles Leave Some Professionals Debating Responsibility to Government" by David E. Rosenbaum, The New York Times (November 23, 2001)
You know he's there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.
Michael Moore— On President George W. Bush in "BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore" (13 March 2002)
We know all those facts about Florida and what Katherine Harris did, and the private firm that took African-Americans off the voting rolls and prohibited them from voting. But I've been surprised in this first week how many average Americans were not aware of all of the trickery and deceit that took place in the year before the election to fix it for George W. Bush.
Michael Moore— "BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore" (13 March 2002)
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
philip roth— Part 5: "Cunt Crazy"
A few things for themselves, Florida , venereal soil, Disclose to the lover.
wallace stevens— O Florida, Venereal Soil"
I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
— Piers Anthony, as quoted in 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors (2005) by Bernard Alger Drew, p. 11
Here in Florida ... we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
— Walt Disney, in an EPCOT promotional film (1966), the last film which Disney made; first publicly presented at a press conference in Winter Haven, Florida (2 February 1967); also quoted in Vinyl Leaves : Walt Disney World and America (1992) by Stephen M. Fjellman, p. 114
When I was twelve, I helped my Daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement, because some damn fool parked a dozen warheads ninety miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a coupla' hundred warheads off Washington or New York and no-one would know anything about it until it was all over.
— Larry Ferguson, in The Hunt for Red October (1990 film), based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.
— Neil Gaiman, in American Gods, Ch. 13
Where the hell's Fiji ? Near Florida?
— Andrew Niccol, in The Truman Show (1998)
California , Florida, whatever. Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan.
— Hubert Selby, Jr., in Requiem for a Dream (2000)
A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover.
— Wallace Stevens, in "O Florida, Venereal Soil"
One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled.
— John Updike, in Rabbit at Rest (1990)
There was a guy down in Florida who said that, at the age of 53 years old, he was in good enough physical condition to withstand the wind, rain and hail of a force-3 hurricane. Now, let me explain somethin' to ya: it isn't that the wind is blowin', it's what the wind is blowin'. If you get hit by a Volvo, it doesn't matter how many sit-ups you did that morning.
Ron White— They Call me "Tater Salad" (2004)
When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.
— Stacy Schiff, Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?, The New Yorker, 2006-07-31
My Florida water.
— Who: Lucille Ball
— Note: Her response when asked if she wanted anything.
