Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
-
Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
-
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
-
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-
Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
-
I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
-
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
-
I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
-
Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
-
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
-
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
-
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
-
I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
-
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
-
Specialization is the goal of civilization.
-
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
-
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
-
Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.
-
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
-
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
-
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
