Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Wise

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• God not only initiated my salvation, He not only sowed the seed, but He made sure that that seed germinated in my heart by regenerating me by the power of the Holy Ghost.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Heart
  • Power

• Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Sunday
  • Saturday
  • Racing

• But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

  

  Abraham Michael Rosenthal
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Someone
  • Ridiculous
  • Overweight

• I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mean
  • Accomplishment
  • Admiration

• All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Women
  • Taken
  • Sweet

• We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • People
  • Deal
  • Computation

• Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • World
  • Protect
  • Trade

• The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Success
  • Single

• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

  

  Susan Polis Schutz
  • Life
  • Want
  • Choose

• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Women
  • She
  • Marriage

• We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Needs
  • Metaphor