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

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

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.

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

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