Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

Terence McKenna

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• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Men
  • Inevitable

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Leaving
  • Kid
  • Priorities

• Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Action

• However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Proud

• A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • U.S.
  • Along
  • Batteries

• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • World
  • Better
  • Commitment

• If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Today
  • Technology

• Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Heart
  • Space
  • Pain

• Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Forget
  • Forgive

• Isaacs has a cheap Bic pen in his hand. He runs his fingers down the shaft, inverts it, runs his fingers down the shaft, over and over, in a motion that is mechanical rather than impatient.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Hand

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Age
  • Wise

• These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Financial

• Thanks for the timesThat you've given me.The memories are all in my mind.And now that we've comeTo the end of our rainbow,There's somethingI must say out loud.You're once, twiceThree times a lady.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Mind
  • Memories
  • Thanks

• I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Mainstream
  • Decade
  • Desktop

• Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Future
  • Loneliness
  • Uncertain

• In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Question
  • Weird

• The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality