Quotes from Fannie Flagg

Sookie realized she really should have put her foot down when Ce Ce and James invited all their friends to bring their pets to the reception

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.