«About Florida»

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

Henry Rollins

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

John Lutz

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

Vanilla Ice

Florida isn’t so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

Douglas Coupland

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

Roxane Gay

Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you’re finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It’s hard to say no sometimes.

Jim Drain

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

Rick Scott

It doesn’t matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It’s just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Matt Passmore

I kinda like Florida. It’s hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn’t Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn’t south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you’re done.

Tony Hale

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

Amy Seimetz

I’m blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

Marco Rubio

A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ’Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Mary Wesley

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Jeb Bush

If I’m offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

F. Lee Bailey

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It’s hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

Carl Hiaasen

The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

I am absolutely convinced that Florida will become the most exciting place in the world to live and work.

Rick Scott

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

Kevin Richardson

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

Tom Feeney

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

Jeb Bush

I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It’s a weird place, it’s surreal. It’s so close, but you feel like you’re in another world or on an island.

Jemima Kirke