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

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

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

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.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

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