Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Like
  • Better
  • Wine

• I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• '8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Day

• I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Respect
  • Control
  • Focus

• There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • War
  • Christian

• We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Men
  • Moral

• I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Prince
  • Princess
  • Cheesy

• Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • People
  • Taken
  • Beach

• I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Stop

• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Mine

• We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • War
  • Future
  • Democracy

• It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

  

  Jean Pigozzi
  • World
  • Important
  • Black

• Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.

  

  Washed Out
  • Important
  • Me
  • Feel

• The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Perceive
  • Fractions