Miami Quotes

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

A litany of headlights blinding her, she stands unsteady on the dotted traffic line, takes timid steps toward rolled up windows behind which any horror could crouch....

~ Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez

Gary Robinson died hungry.He wanted fried chicken, the three-piece box for $2.19. Drunk, loud, and obnoxious, he pushed ahead of seven customers on line at a fast-food chicken outlet. The counter girl told him that his behavior was impolite. She calmed him down with sweet talk, and he agreed to step to the end of the line. His turn came just before closing time, just after the fried chicken ran out.He punched the counter girl so hard her ears rang, and a security guard shot him—three times.

~ Edna Buchanan

No one dares to steal your private stuff which is priceless for you if you place a strong security arrangement in that place, but every time you cannot physically exist there, in order to reduce your tension Centex Security cameras take care of your things.

~ Centex Security

She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willfull. Mostly, she was bored silly by the vanilla sort boys who trailed her around, and by the stodgy set in Miami Beach.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

~ Don Johnson

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

~ Lil' Kim

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

~ P. J. O'rourke

In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

~ Daniel Boulud

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

~ Lenny Bruce

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

~ Robin Gibb

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

~ Jon Secada