Mary Schmich Quotes (20 Quotes)

All this situation does is remind people of the incredible power and potency of the Internet,

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

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.

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.

That's the central mystery of this whole situation, ... Digital Jam.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

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.

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

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

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.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.

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

Over the course of that morning, I started hearing from a lot of Tribune readers, both on the phone and via e-mail, telling me that they were getting this commencement speech in their e-mail but they remembered reading it in my column,

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

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.