Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

Terence McKenna

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Kind
  • Happen
  • Lottery

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Run

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Imagination

• Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nations
  • Resolve
  • Disputes

• We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Fate

• She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She

• He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Done
  • Truth

• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sex

• The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

  

  John Lawson
  • World
  • America

• I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • She
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

  

  James Frey
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Universe