Quotes About Miami

Wiley wrote a daily column for the Sun and probably was the best-known journalist in Miami.

No fooling, Keyes thought. He had arrived in Miami in 1979 from a small newspaper in suburban Baltimore. There was nothing original about why he'd left for Florida—a better job, no snow, plenty of sunshine. On his first day at the Miami Sun, Keyes had been assigned the desk next to Skip Wiley—the newsroom equivalent of Parris Island. Keyes covered cops for a while, then courts, then local politics.

A.Q., Keyes remembered, stood for Asshole Quotient. Skip Wiley had a well-known theory that the quality of life declined in direct proportion to the Asshole Quotient. According to Wiley's reckoning, Miami had 134 total assholes per square mile, giving it the worst A.Q. in North America. In second place was Aspen, Colorado (101), with Malibu Beach, California, finishing third at 97.

had mechanical problems and he got stuck in Miami. The time before

The other interns have left, and your eyes are beginning to spill over. The hell with it, you think. No one's here. It's better that you cry before you drive. Miami's confusing to navigate at night, and they haven't invented Google Maps yet.

It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.

Being arrested in any airport is bad, but being arrested in the Miami airport is terrifying.

James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

We had sold a lot of copies of the 'Miami' album without being racked by some of the big distributors.

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I've come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.

I do so many cruises out of Miami, all the RSVP ones. And I'm on the cruises out of Fort Lauderdale all the time. I'm always doing cruise after cruise out of there.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

I get to represent me and my family, but most importantly the Miami Heat.

I've always felt that Miami is part of my DNA.

I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.

When you come from Miami, you're used to winning.

I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.'

I'm from Miami, you know, when you're a child, you always want to play in front of your hometown.

I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

I loved LeBron when he was in Cleveland. Loved him in Miami. And loved him when he went back to Cleveland.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

What we love about the character Katie, played by Katy Mixon, is that she feels very universal and very relatable. And what we love about 'American Housewife' is that it feels like it could speak for housewives from New York to Los Angeles, from Boise to Miami.