Mary Schmich Quotes

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

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• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Doubt
  • Without
  • Machinery

• I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Actually

• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Great
  • Environment
  • Wrong

• I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Language

• My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• This world's a bubble.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Bubble

• Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Conflict
  • Participation

• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Day

• I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Potent
  • Vigorous
  • Virile

• Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Failure

• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Art
  • Experiment

• Kant ... stated that he had 'found it necessary to deny knowledge … to make room for faith,' but all he had 'denied' was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• The propagation problem is the problem of explaining by the structural properties of the swinging system what the character of the swings would be in case the system was started in some initial situation

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Character

• I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'

  

  Tanith Lee

• Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Done

• It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Mountains
  • Shoe
  • Pebble

• I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Character
  • Emotional

• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • High
  • Water
  • Quality

• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Science

• 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