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

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

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

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

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

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