Tropical Quotes

I have a little fantasy where in the last episode of the season, we slip into the prison`s sewer system, up through the grate, and pop out a hatch - and we`re face to face with Matthew Fox and spend season 2 on a tropical beach - jokingly linking his show, "Prison Break" (2005) to "Lost" (2004).

I guess I went a little nuts. But I knew I didn`t want to be at the (movie) premiere with 500 people 6 months down the line, embarrassed by my physical condition. So I developed a program that was Olympic in its intensity. Eight hours a day, six days a week, combining martial arts, yoga, weight lifting, running, swimming, and stationary bike. I went to Maui `cause I had to be in tropical climate to burn the fat. I brought my chef who had the difficult task of preparing three meals a day with no salt, no fat, no red meat, no cholesterol, and still keeping it interesting, you know? Maybe a plate of steam for breakfast. - On how (and why) he got so muscular and fit for the Rambo sequence in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).

I have a little fantasy where in the last episode of the season, we slip into the prison`s sewer system, up through the grate, and pop out a hatch - and we`re face to face with Matthew Fox and spend season 2 on a tropical beach. - jokingly linking his show, "Prison Break" (2005) to "Lost" (2004).

Victorians weren`t into pastels. They liked strong, hot colors. Tropical colors.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Even another tropical storm could set the reconstruction back for months.

We expect that by the time the 2005 hurricane season is over, we will witness seasonal tropical cyclone activity at near-record levels.

The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn`t changed, ... If I`m proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.

(Most people are aware the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, Fla., is forecasting an above-normal storm season, predicting 11 or more tropical storms and hurricanes in the Florida area between June and November. Better yet, the Weather Service office has its own concrete shelter built inside the office.) We believe in the need to have a safe building, ... We have a safe room that`s practically a vault -- it`s reinforced with 2 feet of concrete all the way around.

I don`t think there`s much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there`s some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don`t bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

No one that I`ve talked to is regretting that we had a tropical storm.

Throughout China, everyone does stir-fries, but only the Cantonese speak about wok hay. They`re experts because it`s hot and tropical there, with abundant produce and seafood. They cook and eat it quickly, with no leftovers.

The Texas coast is in for a long period of tropical activity.

Paradoxically, perhaps, there seems nothing enduring to be gained in terms of meaningful life change purely from leisure, from having a great time. If you or I could redesign the world we`d certainly do it very differently, so that every time we took a magic vacation at some tropical paradise we would return full of more wisdom than the World Encyclopedia of Philosophical Quotations. Until then, we are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life usually come to us through some form of extreme hardship.

Life is short, wear tropical shirts.