Quotes from Fannie Flagg

Quando sentirai il telefono che non suona, sarò io che non chiamo.

I found out I got ringworm from Felix. If it gets in my head, they will have to shave off my hair. I'll be bald just like Eisenhower, and I am a Democrat.

Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.

They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

Why Did Noah Let Two Snakes on the Boat When He Had a Chance to Get Rid of Them Once and for All?

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.

Mildred had had a few men friends after that, but she never really loved any of them. None could ever compete with the one that got away.

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don't ever want you to forget that. You hear me?

Oswald welcomed the cooler weather because in the following days he discovered it brought winter sunsets, and the river sunsets were different from anything else he had ever seen. They mesmerized him.

Aunque esté sentada aquí en la Residencia Rose Terrace, mentalmente estoy dando cuenta de un plato de tomates verdes fritos en el café de Whistle Stop. Mrs. Virginia Threadgoode Junio de 1986

Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home.

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the parishioners who had come to the church, Ida said she wanted to be God, because she was the only one who knew how to do it. Of

and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor.

With the last of the sun fading, he could see the reflection of the green lights on the docks across the way and the stars twinkling in the river like small diamonds. What a show. This was better than any movie he had ever seen, and it was different every night. It was so wonderful at times he felt he wanted to do something about it, to try and stop time, make it last longer, but he didn't know what to do.

You never saw people anymore, everything was self-service, everybody behind glass windows. And you could not get a real person on the phone. Everywhere you called, a recorded message connected you to another recorded message and then hung up on you.

Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don't think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. But I never did. I'm one of the lucky ones. I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright.

Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

Now, I'm not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.

They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

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.