Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

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• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Justice

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • God
  • Think
  • Name

• Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Love
  • Today

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Work
  • America
  • Feeling

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Best
  • Dark

• When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • America
  • Environment
  • iPhone

• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Long
  • Positive

• Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Better
  • Results
  • Meditation

• I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • You
  • Trust
  • Artist

• 'They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.' She rolled her eyes. 'You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Society

• For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Light

• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Present

• As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

  

  William Osler
  • World
  • Men
  • Evil

• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Respect

• Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Poverty

• Invent a new language anyone can understand.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Language
  • Invent

• There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action.

  

  Adam Nicolson
  • Action
  • Peace
  • Violence

• You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Light
  • inspirational