Quotes About Mea

#1. Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.

Teodor Burnar

#2. Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. That was the trouble with California in the 1840's. The life was too easy, there was no necessity for struggle, and men must struggle or they deteriorate.

Louis L'Amour

#4. It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'

Alex Gibney

#5. 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Iain Banks

#6. Janie makes me a better person."

She gave mea small smile before she turned to the front of the chapel. "You make yourself a better person. Janie is just a reminder of why it's worth it.

Penny Reid

#7. He took from his coat pocket a handful of wadded-up cash, as if children had paid him directly with their sweaty clutches of dollar bills.

Timothy Schaffert

#8. Mea Culpa. By That Sin Fell the Angels. Exuro, Exuro, Exuro.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#9. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault - as she pounded her fist to her chest three times as if pounding shut a door to keep her guilt from escaping.

Rita Leganski

#10. The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
[Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Ovid

#11. Sleeping in the same bed with someone to whom you can admit your failings is a lasting comfort indeed. This is not about "mea culpa" as surrender, it is about "mea culpa" as mortar in binding together the uneven bricks of a human foundation.

Michael Perry

#12. Win them with your beauty, but catch them off guard with your soul.

Lorrie Moore

#13. He said "They were heartily welcome to his poor cottage", and turning to Mr. Didapper, cried out, 'Non mea renidet in domo lacunar.' The beau answered, "He did not understand Welsh"; at which the parson stared and made no reply.

Henry Fielding

#14. She hadn't moved in the last hour and I was starting to think that she had died and I just hadn't noticed.

That made mea bad boyfriend, didn't it?

Anonymous

#15. Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

George Eads

#16. I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.

Dick Vitale

#17. Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.

Peter Landesman

#18. I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

Calvin Klein

#19. No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA."
He had had a classical education.

J.M. Barrie

#20. Tell mea tale from the days when shadow cloaked the land, when the Dark Crystal and its missing shard had not yet been reunited.

Barbara Randall Kesel

#21. Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

Michael Donaghy

#22. Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time.
Mea Brin, The Huntress

Michelle O'Leary

#23. My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Taylor Caldwell

#24. 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