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

• You never know what the future brings.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Future
  • Know
  • Never

• 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

• If anyone cares for three daughters, disciplines them, marries them, and does good to them, he will go to Jannah.

  

  Abu Dawood
  • Cares
  • Daughters
  • Jannah

• There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Business
  • Never
  • Brand

• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.

  

  Eduard Suess
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Walking

• 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