Quotes by Fannie Flagg

About Fannie Flagg:

Patricia Neal is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes. Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation.
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No, tesoro, credo ancora in Dio. E' solo la parte su Adamo e Eva che mi fa sorgere un interrogativo.

Fannie Flagg

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

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By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.

Fannie Flagg

...nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.

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

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Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Fannie Flagg

It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all ...

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And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind: Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not callin...

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I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had th...

Fannie Flagg

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

Fannie Flagg

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

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Later on, still looking, she had tried to get involved with the Women's Community Center. She liked what they stood for but secretly wished they would wear just a little lipstick and shave their legs. She had been the only one in the room in full mak...

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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.

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Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

Fannie Flagg

Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always c...

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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

Fannie Flagg

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameFannie Flagg
  • DescriptionAmerican actress, comedian and author
  • BornSeptember 21, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Author; Novelist; Screenwriter