Fannie Flagg Quotes

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Fannie Flagg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 21, 1941

Topics

WorkWaterDepressionHappyFace

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Maya Angelou

TruthChildrenPeopleGrowHonor

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

Maurice Strong

PathChanceDownGoSameMay

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

Jean-Michel Basquiat

TimeWordsYouExitThreadLike

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

Jeff Daniels

LongDumbNeverHardHesitationGas

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

John Waters

YouMostPerverseHeardEverThing

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

Skitch Henderson

HouseHollywoodOrchestraBigDemise

Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she had to trust God, that she was so privileged to be the mother of the Savior, that she had to stand there as a mother and watch her son being murdered and trust that that is what he came to do.

Roma Downey

MotherSonGodRelationshipTeacher

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Mason Cooley

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Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.

Mike Cernovich

PartyRealRepublicanTakeZeroGet

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Michel Foucault

SocietyBehaviorBodyFindWherever

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

Judy Collins

TogetherI AmMadNewEverything

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

Drew Barrymore

GreatCoolWorldThoughtLovedYou

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