Mary Schmich Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.”

“Barbie is just a doll.”

“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.”

“A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.”

“You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.”

“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.”

“One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.”

“On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.”

“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.”

“The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.”