miami

"The Miami Biltmore Hotel was the crowning achievement of the ready-made city of . Today elegantly restored, it continues to beckon guests from the world over. When it opened in 1925 it was the tallest structure in Florida."

", the most prolific of golf architects in the 1920s, designed the two 36-hole courses at the Biltmore. In the 1940s, one of the courses was sold to a private group and became Riviera Golf and Country Club in Coral Gables."

"Citizens' activism increased in 1971 after the Veterans Hospital, housed in the former Biltmore Hotel, closed and the government announced it would trade the property with a developer who would build condominiums on the site. In 1973, after a heated debate and bond referendum to purchase the property, the city of Coral Gables acquired the property."

"The grand opening party was an extraordinary display of jewelry, furs and clothing by the 1500 guests. Famous band leader conducted one of three orchestras that entertained the guests. Although the prohibited the sale and manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor, it did not spoil the party since, it was said, champagne was flowing. ... The hotel's 300-foot-high belfry is visible from just about any spot in Coral Gables's low-zoned residential area. Lighted by day by the subtropical sun and at night by powerful spotlights, the orange Mediterranean-Moorish belltower, modeled after the in , rises between two seven-story wings. Guests enter into a large impressive space with marble under foot and more than two dozen 25 foot-tall s supporting a ceiling coffered in the center and groin vaulted at either end. The room, with a fireplace in one wall, is decorated with new and antique furnishings and carpets chosen to evoke the grandeur and elegance of an earlier era."

"The Biltmore Hotel and Country Club was the centerpiece of developer 's dream to create a beautiful city. Incorporated as a city after only four years of existence, had homes but no landmark. The 400-room Biltmore Hotel instantly became so, not only as the tallest building in south Florida but also as the center for activities drawing the rich and famous to Coral Gables. ... Teaming up with Biltmore hotelier , Merrick hired architects (1877-1951) and (1879-1939), who had just finished the , to create a striking structure . ... The Biltmore has suffered but survived economic downturns, and today, operated by a private consortium but owned by the City of Coral Gables, its future seems secure."

"I've got to mash to the 3-0-5. I get G'd like I want to in Miami, you understand me? I put that on my Grammy."

"No further victims have been found, as you've heard. The numbers are the same as they were yesterday; 127 have been accounted for... One hundred and fifty-nine unaccounted for. Four confirmed dead"

"The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other."

"Maybe we should leave it that way?"

"A picture is starting to form here..."

"Some pieces don't quite seem to fit."

"Or maybe I just don't like the way it looks."

"Some things work out best when you don't try so hard."

"No matter who you are, bearing too much weight..."

"Inevitably leads to the collapse of everything."

"You don't look well, sir. Are you alright?"

"Oh, you don't need to order, your pizza's already done."

"It's like it's from a movie or something, right?"

"So, out for a midnight snack, huh?"

"Sounds like a scene straight from a slasher flick, heh!"

"Oh, don't worry about it. It's on the house..."

"We've met before, haven't we?"

"Why don't you finish what you've started?"

"I want out! And you're gonna tell me how!"

"Get out of here if you don't want to die!"

"You're dead meat."

"This... This can't be happening..."

"You had your chance."

"Do you like hurting other people?"

"You people have wasted my time enough already."

"What do you want?..."

"Well, let's get this over with then..."

"Good times Never last..."

"How the hell did you figure that out?"

"Wake up, man. Don't you see that this is a country at war?"

"So why don't we get this over with?"

"And who do we have here? ..."

"Now I want to see who is behind that mask!"

"I made a game about a cucumber with a head that jumped over a ball. Then I made a game about spitting on children... They weren’t very good. Soon I started thinking it would be fun for other people to play my games, so I started going onto online forums and uploading my games there. I got a lot of response to it so I just kept doing it."

"I looked through your computer upstairs."

"You'll never get the big picture, and it's all your own fault."

"Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds."

"You're no guest of mine!"

"You're not a nice person, are you?"

"I see that my opinion of you doesn't matter."

"If you insist on returning here, then I should leave!"

"Oh, you don't know who you are?"