Mary Schmich Quotes

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Mary Schmich

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Creative
  • Plan

• I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Universities
  • Rubbish

• I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Sleep
  • Bed
  • Meat

• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Great
  • Men
  • Age

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Script

• I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Struggle

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Speak

• After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Field
  • Programming
  • After

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Successful
  • Mystery
  • Expression

• It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

  

  Genevieve Gorder
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• There is always room for improvement in our game.

  

  Virgil van Dijk
  • Game
  • Improvement
  • Room

• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • Game
  • Words
  • Light