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My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space.
— Carl Hiaasen
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
— Carl Hiaasen
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
— Carl Hiaasen
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
— Carl Hiaasen
If God was my co-pilot, Yancy once groused to Burton, I'd have the fucking pedal to the metal soon as I left the garage.
— Carl Hiaasen
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
— Carl Hiaasen
I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
— Carl Hiaasen
Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.
— Carl Hiaasen
A fallow mind is a field of discontent.
— John H. Cunningham
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
— Carl Hiaasen
Whatever happens, I'm glad we ate that bleeping lizard.
— Carl Hiaasen
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
— Carl Hiaasen
Nope. He lives over in Boca Raton." "Oh fuck, Red." "I know, it's hor'ble. That's how come the five hundred a day.
— Carl Hiaasen
That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.
— Carl Hiaasen
My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
— Carl Hiaasen
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
— Carl Hiaasen
I don't care if you pack it in fucking kryptonite, that lottery ticket ain't going up your ass.
— Carl Hiaasen
The boy manifested the sort of submissive dimness that foretold a long sad future in minimum-security institutions
— Carl Hiaasen
A well-regulated militia," Bode added, "like they talk about in the Second Amendment." "Oh," said Shiner. He hadn't read the first one yet.
— Carl Hiaasen
He paused and manufactured a chuckle.
— Carl Hiaasen
to a perfectly terrible day.
— Carl Hiaasen
From the pancake house I drive directly to the county morgue. The contrast is not especially striking.
— Carl Hiaasen
His mother wanted him closer to home. The funeral had been
— Carl Hiaasen
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
— Carl Hiaasen
stick together like shit on a shoe.
— Carl Hiaasen
Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.
— Carl Hiaasen
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
— Carl Hiaasen
Coroners made Al Garcia jumpy; they always got so cheery when somebody came up with a fresh way to die.
— Carl Hiaasen
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
— Carl Hiaasen
A quick puke, two rails of blow and she was solid.
— Carl Hiaasen
Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids.
— Carl Hiaasen
Malley told the shrink that she'd run away because Justin
— Carl Hiaasen
If anything is more irresistible than Jesus, it's Mickey.
— Carl Hiaasen
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
— Carl Hiaasen
Boyd Shreave tore the page from Eugenie Fonda's memoir and, with a contemptuous flourish, wiped his ass with it.
— Carl Hiaasen
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
— Carl Hiaasen
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
— Carl Hiaasen
She said there was no tactful way for a naked person to cope with a runny nose, especially while dancing. Orly grudgingly agreed.
— Carl Hiaasen
The victim's hand was contracted into a fist except for the middle digit, which was rigidly extended.
— Carl Hiaasen
Losing his hair. Ms. Chase and me,
— Carl Hiaasen
From the bow of the canoe she asked, "Do you know a rain dance?"
"First I need a virgin. — Carl Hiaasen
"First I need a virgin. — Carl Hiaasen
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
— Carl Hiaasen
Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda.
— Carl Hiaasen
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
— Carl Hiaasen
sucking on a football.
— Carl Hiaasen
The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.
— Carl Hiaasen
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
— Carl Hiaasen
Hey. Sometimes to conclusions.
— Carl Hiaasen
Shreave flicked away the dead mosquito. "Don't these things carry the bird flu too?"
"No Boyd, that would be a bird. — Carl Hiaasen
"No Boyd, that would be a bird. — Carl Hiaasen
Disney world is an armpit,compared to Montana!!
— Carl Hiaasen
He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had
— Carl Hiaasen
and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.
— Carl Hiaasen
I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.
— Carl Hiaasen
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
— Carl Hiaasen
Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.
— Carl Hiaasen
Nobody said he was Alvin Einstein.
— Carl Hiaasen
I married an asshole, she thought, knifing into the waves.
— Carl Hiaasen
As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers.
— Carl Hiaasen
The dog proved to be as dumb and stubborn as a mud fence, so Stranahan had named him Strom.
— Carl Hiaasen
If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.
— Julia Spencer-Fleming
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
— Carl Hiaasen
You can make a day of any size.
— Mario Iezzoni