Mecum Quotes & Sayings

My town is broken.
From this view, I see the end.
Below, they gather. — Ryan Mecum

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower ... I live still a collegiate student ... and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world ... aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all. — Robert Burton

Those were not vampires.
If sunlight makes you sparkle,
you're a unicorn. — Ryan Mecum

At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. — Sarah Kay

Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry. — Billy Collins

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next. — Lady Gaga

If the dawn should break
and take away this sunrise,
I hope I break, too. — Ryan Mecum

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. — Henry Miller

Just remember, it all started with a mouse. — Walt Disney

Let's look at this rationally ... We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III ... First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats ... — Christopher Buckley

Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing.
The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade Mecum
Thomas Hillgrove, 1857 — Thomas Hillgrove

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh, — Lorrie Moore

Bitting into heads
is much harder than it looks.
The skull is feisty. — Ryan Mecum

I loved my momma
I eat her with my mouth closed,
how she would want it. — Ryan Mecum

There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me. — Anne Carson

Blood is really warm,
it's like drinking hot chocolate
but with more screaming. — Ryan Mecum

...sola est quies,
mecum ruina cuncta si video abruta;
mecum omnia abeant. Trahere cum pereas, libet.
(...the only calm for me -
if with me I see the whole universe o'erwhelmed in ruins;
with me let all things pass away; 'tis sweet to drag others down when thou art perishing.) — Seneca.

I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available. — Louis Navellier

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her. — Neil Gaiman

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow. — Anthony Daniels

You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter. — Abby Wambach

Gay men are French women...with penises. — Simon Doonan

Beth from accounting
is just sitting in her car
eating spaghetti. — Ryan Mecum

Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change. — Mark Shields

You are so lucky
that I cannot remember
how to use doorknobs. — Ryan Mecum

If this were real life,
Ed would have looked at her neck-
bite, dead, burp, credits. — Ryan Mecum

Little old ladies
speed away in their wheelchairs,
frightened meals on wheels. — Ryan Mecum