| "I never get mad... the way I was raised it was bad manners. Well, I got mad. And it felt terrific. I felt like I could beat the shit out of all those punks... Just beat 'em to a pulp. Beat 'em till they beg for mercy. Towanda, the avenger! And after I, after I wipe out all the punks of the world, I'll take on the wife beaters... and machine gun their genitals. Towanda will go on a rampage. I'll put tiny little bombs in Penthouse and Playboy so they'll explode when you open them. And I'll ban all fashion models who way less then 130 lbs. And I'll give half the military budget to people over 65. And declare wrinkles sexually desireable. Towanda! Righter of wrongs! Queen beyond compare!" -Evilin (Fried Green Tomatoes) "How many of them hormones are you taking, honey?" -Mrs Thredgood (Fried Green Tomatoes) "My daddy always used to say there was a seporate god for children." -Ruth (Fried Green Tomatoes) "Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you." -Erich Fromm "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." -Robert Frost "If every word I said would make you smile, I'd talk forever.." -Full House "The longer we stay here, the longer we'll be here." -John Furiato "It is far a better to remain firmly anchored in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought." -John K. Galbraith "What a long strange trip it's been." -Jerry Garcia "When I die, in the newspaper they'll write that the sons of bitches of this world have lost their leader." -Vincent Gardenia "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." -James A. Garfield "For twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland "I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass." -Johnny Frank Garrett "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard." -William Lloyd Garrison "Of all the people who walk into our lives; only a few choose to stayÉthese few we call friends." -Lynn Gerard "Never give advice unless asked." -German Proverb "Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." -Kahlil Gibran "If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." -Khalil Gibran "When the earth reclaims your limbs, then shall you truly dance." -Khalil Gibran "People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean." -Penelope Gilliatt "It is impossible to maintain a civilization with 12-year olds having babies; with 15-year olds killing each other; with 17-year olds dying of AIDS; and with 18-year olds ending up with diplomas they can't even read." -Newt Gingrich (Speaker of the House) "Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." -Ginsberg "Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people." -Don Corleone (The Godfather) "If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you were what you are capable of becoming, I will help you become that." -Goethe |
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