Quotes About Key West

#1. Our complimentary dinner that evening was really quite nice. I have always found that free meals taste just a little bit better, and after two days of the rapacious greed of the Key West economy, this was succulent indeed. And

Jeff Lindsay

#2. If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

Edmund White

#3. Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

Edmund White

#4. On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

Carrot Top

#5. Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

Wallace Stevens

#6. The plum-colored night sky was shifting to pink to make room for the day, which looked as though it might turn out "glorious and whimsical," as the Key West Citizen had promised.

Lucy Burdette

#7. One of the things Key West teaches is that disappointment and contentment can go together more easily than you would probably imagine.

Laurence Shames

#8. We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Gloria Swanson

#9. You said Brian is forcing us to go to Key West, whether we want to or not," I said. "And you said all the houses will be there. Other than that, you might as well be speaking Etruscan." Rita

Jeff Lindsay

#10. It had enough room for all of us at a price we could easily pay off in ten years or so, which wasn't too bad, considering that it was in Key West and the town was founded by rapacious pirates.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

Jimmy Buffett

#12. My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

Kanye West

#13. Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

Randy West

#14. She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

Meryl Sawyer

#15. The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed ... The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

E.F. Schumacher

#16. Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.

Dave Barry

#17. I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

Jase Robertson

#18. Can a non-Western power really hope to benefit from downloading Western scientific knowledge, if it continues to reject that other key part of the West's winning formula: the third institutional innovation of private property rights, the rule of law and truly representative government?

Niall Ferguson

#19. Character determines fate.

Meryl Sawyer

#20. You have reached the home and workplace of Roberto Natchez. I do not often take calls. I make no promise to return them. I have much to do. You may leave a message if you wish.

Laurence Shames

#21. But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw - one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.

Peter Stark

#22. That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make-he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.

Kanye West

#23. Hey Shelly, you're looking at me like I'm from another planet. What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong. Bubbles sold me alien abduction insurance. I haven't got a care in the world.

Meryl Sawyer

#24. The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.

Paul Harvey

#25. I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness ... My work has always been my greatest happiness

Mae West

#26. She tried to shriek for help, to cry out against the blinding agony, but her mouth wouldn't open. The scream stalled in her throat and she gagged. Oh my God. She couldn't move her lips. She couldn't say one word.

Meryl Sawyer

#27. West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.

P.J. Parker

#28. Okay, okay, already," I said, holding up both hands in an I-surrender sort of gesture. "I'll try it your way from now on. I'll do the touchy-feely stuff. Jeez. You West Coasters. It's all backrubs and avocado sandwiches with you guys, isn't it?

Meg Cabot

#29. No, I don't work here, I'm taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I'm always up for clean, so if you want to pitch in, I've got Pine Sol and a sponge in my car ... It's that VW microbus parked next to the dumpster, and you don't need a key, just pull hard.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#30. I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

Meryl Sawyer

#31. The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Martin Sheen

#32. A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

John H. Cunningham

#33. Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

Meryl Sawyer

#34. Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.

Mathias Rust

#35. The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

Klaus Schwab