Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

Terence McKenna

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• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Running

• Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Business
  • Experience

• Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Dark

• Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Walking

• When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Responsibility
  • Drug

• I'm not perfect. As a Christian, you're not perfect, you know, but you're walking every day and trying to stay connected.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Christian

• I always think that some of those moms who are rocking cool fashion looks while walking their little babies in a stroller is just the bomb. You don't have to, all of a sudden, have to transition into 'mom' outfits from the '90s just because you became a mom.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Fashion
  • Mom
  • Cool

• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Walking

• The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Mind
  • Fool
  • Drug

• It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Bad
  • Walking
  • Mood

• Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Different
  • Childhood
  • Process

• It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

  

  Gabor Mate
  • Drug
  • Addiction

• When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Failure
  • Facts
  • Deals

• When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh grass. Instead, we wrap ourselves in our own dark environment, where our only companion is the smell of our own sweat. In the cocoon, there is no dance, no walking or breathing. It is comfortable and sleepy, an intense and very familiar home.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Home
  • Dark
  • Environment

• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• It is fun to do the one-off guest stars on stuff.

  

  David Denman
  • Fun

• I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

  

  Kelly Cutrone
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Walking
  • Facts
  • Drug