Mecum Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If this were real life,
Ed would have looked at her neck-
bite, dead, burp, credits.

Ryan Mecum

#4. I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.

Magnus Carlsen

#5. If the dawn should break
and take away this sunrise,
I hope I break, too.

Ryan Mecum

#6. Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

Jennifer Granholm

#7. If they're sentenced to the Caverns, we'll both be free to choose different mates. But I don't want another mate, Emma. I want Rayna. I always have.
Geez, the boy knows how to make my heart all melty.

Anna Banks

#8. What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. Little old ladies
speed away in their wheelchairs,
frightened meals on wheels.

Ryan Mecum

#10. My town is broken.
From this view, I see the end.
Below, they gather.

Ryan Mecum

#11. Bitting into heads
is much harder than it looks.
The skull is feisty.

Ryan Mecum

#12. Blood is really warm,
it's like drinking hot chocolate
but with more screaming.

Ryan Mecum

#13. Those were not vampires.
If sunlight makes you sparkle,
you're a unicorn.

Ryan Mecum

#14. I loved my momma
I eat her with my mouth closed,
how she would want it.

Ryan Mecum

#15. You are so lucky
that I cannot remember
how to use doorknobs.

Ryan Mecum

#16. The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

Lucian Freud

#17. Beth from accounting
is just sitting in her car
eating spaghetti.

Ryan Mecum

#18. I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

Kiefer Sutherland

#19. His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

Jonathan Franzen

#20. Her hands reach out for intangible dreams as dust motes dance in the spectrum of light across one corner of the room.

Tracey-anne McCartney