Quotes About Miami

I grew up in Florida, and my uncle used to work at the Miami Beach Convention Center in concessions.

Not long after watching 'The Passenger,' I wrote the first lines of 'The Isle of Youth,' which concerns twin sisters who swap identities and become ensnared in the Miami underworld.

Miami fans have got a terrible reputation around the national media, and I think it's very unfair.

I'm very comfortable here. I enjoy all aspects of it. This is a place I want to make a stamp and bring something that Miami hasn't seen before.

Miami is a place that if you like to work, then it's good for you. Because I feel like they hold you to a higher standard.

My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.

I grew up in Miami, which is a very 'cool' city, but I was a science nerd.

My first NBA game was in Paris. It was Miami against the Nets, and Vince Carter was playing.

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.

I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.

I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years later when things were starting to look bad.

I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop.

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.

Where's the rule that says you can't just unilaterally declare yourself a spy and snoop around for no reason? That's the whole key to life: Fuck explaining yourself to people. Plus Miami is the perfect place, absolutely crawling with self-employed, freelance agents in dummy corporations ready to join any government that can't have direct involvement with an illicit operation. I'll just act suspicious until the highest bidder comes along.

In the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball, the skydiving frogmen are supposed to be jumping into the Bahamas, but downtown Miami is in the background.

What gripes me the most is all the garbage they give us Cubans. All of that 'Oh my God, we're being overrun by rafters!' Hell, we've worked hard to help build Key West and Tampa and Miami," said Serge. "Forget the Marielitos. What about the Ohio-litos?!

The drag scene in Miami has always been top notch to me.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

In 2010 Miami, Florida, became the first major city to toss out its entire zoning book in favor of a homegrown form-based code.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.