Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

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• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Nice

• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligent
  • River
  • Reflected

• I would love to have played Gollum.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Played
  • Would

• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
  • Long
  • Why
  • Think

• Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Work
  • Money
  • Win

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • See
  • Gymnastics

• The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Pressure
  • Stronger
  • Group

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • House
  • Style

• The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

• Always contented with his life,and with his dinner, and his wife.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Life
  • Wife

• Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war Vietnam, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People
  • American
  • War

• Folly always knows the answer.

  

  Mason Cooley

• The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Truth

• People ask me what it was like working with Jim Carrey. Well, I never really saw too much of him. I would talk to him on the set, but I was looking at a Grinch facade. It was his voice and all, but... Jim is amazing to watch in front of the camera. I learned a lot from him. He was also always very nice and generous to me.

  

  Jeremy Howard
  • People
  • Nice
  • Amazing

• Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest...it's about who came, and never left your side.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Friendship
  • Friendship Memories
  • One Line Friendship

• I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • Life
  • Matter
  • My Life

• I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Injustice
  • Countries
  • Great Life

• Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Moving
  • Dog
  • Movement

• There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Power
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

  

  Terence McKenna