Quotes About Florida

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

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the wind in your sails, the sun on your burn and the moon over Miami. I am the native.

Orlando. Tourism on steroids. Florida's mutant chromosome with mouse ears. One of the newer attractions is an air-conditioned dome over a sprawling, man-made replica of the state's natural landscape. They bulldozed nature to build it.

Like no other place on earth. Raw natural beauty, relentless freedom, unorthodox natives. A friend told me something else about the Keys I never forgot: Down here, nobody is who they seem to be. When people in other parts of the country want to reinvent themselves, they come to Florida. But when people in Florida want to reinvent themselves, they come to the Keys.

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.

whenever something goes to hell everywhere else in the country, Florida puts it on roller skates with rocket thrusters.

But what do you think all that shooting was about?" "It's U.S. 1," said Serge. "So it doesn't have to be about anything.

You just can't live in Florida without a pool. It's a necessity, like air conditioning. Or a bidet. Florida is America's bidet.

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles. And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter

Route 27 was the spinal cord of Florida, practically vacant since the interstates, which took them up through towns with main streets that had the same early-evening closing hours since 1957. The only signs of life were the parking lights of local police cars on side streets, waiting for the local delinquents. Clewiston, Sebring, Clermont, Leesburg.

Cadillac Beach a novel TIM DORSEY

This was the beginning of Tampa," said Serge. "They built Fort Brooke here in 1823.

Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon

WITH THREE WEEKS to go in the Florida governor's race, the Tallahassee morning newspaper ran the following headline: 2 HEADS EXPLODE IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS

Bok Tower stands 205 feet upon the highest point in peninsular Florida. It is an unforgettable sight, a stone monument rising alone on a pristine ridge called Iron Mountain, near the center of the state. "The Singing Tower," as it is known, features a fifty-seven-bell carillon, the centerpiece of the tranquil Bok Tower Gardens, a meditative retreat of unmatched serenity.

Serge's definition of total happiness: Florida, a full tank of gas and no appointments.

Ellrod, like all Florida convenience store clerks, had the Serengeti altertness of the tastiest gazelle in the

Most people walk through life without ever noticing the little clues all around that something's not right." Another toilet lid crashed in front of them and Serge pulled a porcelain splinter from his arm. "In Florida, you just have to filter out the background weirdness.

Sand Key lighthouse. Johnny

Ochopee, smallest post office in the United States of America.

Pirate's Cove. The decor was saddles and spurs and branding irons. The sign remained a lasting testimony that pirates don't sell drinks in north Florida, and cowboys don't sell enough for a new sign. Swinging

the residents had yet to acquire an appreciation for a South American midget screaming Spanish profanities like Frankie Valli and sucker-punching a fat woman into submission between the jacarandas.