Mece Quotes

#1. Catchy acronym in the consulting world, "MECE," which stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.

Stanley McChrystal

#2. When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

Ethan Zuckerman

#3. The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

Vandana Shiva

#4. It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones.

Sungha Jung

#5. I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

John Pugsley

#6. I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year.

Trishelle Cannatella

#7. I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

Courtney Love

#8. The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

Reinhard Bonnke

#9. On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Anthony Trollope

#10. I absolutely refuse to let those people at the motor registry take my photograph. Their lighting set-up is terrible. They seem to take cruel delight in making everyone look like they've been dead for six months.

R.A. Spratt

#11. I drop to the curb like childhood leaving a body.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#12. I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves in the dirt. I wonder if they know the sky is bright blue today and the air smells sweet. I wonder if they still listen in.

Andrea Portes