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

• I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates sacrifice. It does mean that you can't be everywhere all the time. It does mean that your friends are not going to get all of you.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Sacrifice

• The very rich, having fundamentally missed the point of urban living, have long been frustrated by the fact that it’s impossible to squeeze the amenities of a country mansion—car showroom, swimming pool, cinema, servants quarters etc.—into the floor space of your average London terrace. Those without access to trans-dimensional engineering, a key Time Lord discovery, have had to resort to extending their houses into the ground. Thus proving that all that stands between your average rich person and a career in Bond villainy is access to an extinct volcano.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Engineering
  • Frustrated
  • Mansion

• I don't know why I write what I write.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Why

• I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, I'm in first place, I want to run as a Republican and I think I'll get the nomination... Hillary Clinton is easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. She's going to be beaten and I'm the one to beat her.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • She
  • History

• All men are NOT created equal before God; the facts of heaven and hell, election and reprobation make clear that they are not equal. Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in terms of "color" creed, race or national origin.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • God
  • Men
  • Heaven

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

  

  Terence McKenna