One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

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

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.

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

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

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

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

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

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

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

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

Some people feed your ego, but starve your soul.

If you can't keep control your emotions, you can't keep save your relationships..,

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

Magnus gazed upon Camille. "Some of my fondest memories include lashings of cream and beautiful women.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.