Mary Schmich Quotes
"Barbie is just a doll."
- Mary Schmich
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: People)
"Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Trust, Support)
"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Time, Jealousy, Waste)
"Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Day, Dress, Style)
"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Art, Variety)
"You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Movies)
"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Life, Movies, People, Favorite, Will)
"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Tears)
"In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Possibility, Now, Years)
"Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Friend)
"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Reading)
"Like many women my age, I am 28 years old."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Women, Age, Old, Years)
"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them."
- Mary Schmich
(Related: Love, Movies)