Wallace Stevens Quotes

We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida - to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

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

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Nature would terminate the fevers by changing the seasons.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

I get homesick for snow and for winter and for seasons and, really, for weather patterns. But L.A. has some of the best weather, so who can complain when it's 80 degrees and sunny?

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

There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.

I've been going to Florida since I was a baby.

Sarasota-Bradenton is a unique community to live in.

Florida, bro. It's different.

I will never be done with South Florida.

I love, love, love South Florida.

If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of 'material,' I would say the landscape of Florida in particular was especially important while writing 'Isle.'