Mary Schmich Quotes (15 quotations)
1. Barbie is just a doll. - Mary Schmich
2. Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick. - Mary Schmich
3. Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich
4. 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
5. 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
6. Home is a chameleon of a word. It can be where you live or where you're from or where your parents are. The holidays force many of us to choose. This is the paradox of Christmastime for the travelers among us, we nomads who migrate at the holidays as predictably as swallows. In the name of home and family, we leave home. - Mary Schmich
7. Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. - Mary Schmich
8. Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. - Mary Schmich
9. Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Mary Schmich
10. The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills. - Mary Schmich
11. The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. - Mary Schmich
12. The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls. - Mary Schmich
13. 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
14. You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. - Mary Schmich
15. You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. - Mary Schmich
2. Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick. - Mary Schmich
3. Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich
4. 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
5. 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
6. Home is a chameleon of a word. It can be where you live or where you're from or where your parents are. The holidays force many of us to choose. This is the paradox of Christmastime for the travelers among us, we nomads who migrate at the holidays as predictably as swallows. In the name of home and family, we leave home. - Mary Schmich
7. Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. - Mary Schmich
8. Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. - Mary Schmich
9. Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Mary Schmich
10. The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills. - Mary Schmich
11. The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. - Mary Schmich
12. The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls. - Mary Schmich
13. 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
14. You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. - Mary Schmich
15. You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. - Mary Schmich
