"We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself."

“In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement,”

“You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.”

“A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.”

“But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.”

“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.”

“To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.”

Source : "Michael Angarano Talks THE BRASS TEAPOT, Portraying a Real Relationship in a Fantastical Story, and Remaking HEAT with Jason Statham". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 5, 2013.

“My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.”

“Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.”