Quotes by Mary Schmich

About Mary Schmich:

Mary Theresa Schmich is an American journalist who has been a columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1992, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr for the last 28 of its 60 years and she wrote the 1997 column, immediately famous, that is usually called "Wear Sunscreen".
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Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Mary Schmich

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

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Mary Schmich

Advice is a form of Nostalgia

Mary Schmich

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Mary Schmich

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

Barbie is just a doll.

Mary Schmich

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

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

Mary Schmich

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

Mary Schmich

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.

Mary Schmich

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

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

Mary Schmich

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 ...

Mary Schmich

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

Mary Schmich

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.

Mary Schmich

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

Mary Schmich

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more rel...

Mary Schmich

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

Mary Schmich

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Mary Schmich

Author Bio

  • NameMary Schmich
  • DescriptionAmerican columnist
  • BornNovember 29, 1953
  • ProfessionColumnist