Miami Twice Quotes & Sayings

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.
Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends ... — Hunter S. Thompson

Harry Dresden. I'm on a mission from God. — Jim Butcher

You can learn all kinds of habits quickly under martial law. The — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line ... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages in other American cities such as Miami (28.5), Los Angeles (22.1), Atlanta (24.4), and New York City (21.2). — Billy Sothern

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice! — Emily Procter

Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you."
"Okay," I said. "It's okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you?"
"Yeah, that would be okay," he said. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted
wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me. — Nicole Krauss

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there. — Vincente Minnelli

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared. — Helmuth Von Moltke The Elder

I maybe such a pain in the ass,
But in a good way.
I give you pleasure at the same time! — Arzum Uzun