Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

Terence McKenna

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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Leadership

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Important
  • Question
  • Study

• The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Like
  • Italian
  • Warm

• Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • World
  • Long
  • Space

• We state with a unified voice that religions through which Almighty God sought to bring happiness to mankind should not be turned into instruments to cause misery,

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • God

• I remember shooting a show in Australia and I was having to leave and come home all the time. And I remember I was leaving for two months and I wept for like 12 hours on the plane because I wasn’t going to get to see him. So yes. I can relate to the young love thing. … But it was only four years - and not that many boyfriends ago.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Brother

• I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • American
  • College
  • English

• I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Father
  • Proud

• You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Football
  • Player
  • Hurt

• I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • Believe

• The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Trump

• There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Music
  • Balance
  • Vulnerability

• My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • People
  • Job

• I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up

• Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • History

• I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

  

  Alexander Theroux
  • People

• I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Fall

• We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Things
  • Loss
  • Teaches

• There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Struggle
  • Angel
  • Crisis