Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Terence McKenna

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• I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Shape
  • Skinny

• Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

  

  Vernon Duke
  • May
  • You
  • Paris

• When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Way
  • Minutes
  • Evaluation

• I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Song
  • Day
  • Everyday

• For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Philosophy

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Week

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Grass

• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Thought
  • Fortitude
  • Marshall

• I've been in relationships in the past where communication wasn't great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Great
  • Past
  • Communication

• I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Death
  • Sad
  • Tired

• It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Why

• I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Work

• I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Good

• Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Power
  • Animal

• And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • World
  • Encouraging

• When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.

  

  Beji Caid Essebsi
  • Work
  • Country
  • Home

• 'You'll Accomp'ny Me' is a song I've always really cherished. The guy in that song is just so courageous. He's saying this to the girl, 'I know you've got to go do your thing, but eventually, we'll be together. I feel that strong, and I know it in my soul.' And there's something really cool about that.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Guy

• Whatever you are, always be a good one.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Always

• We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Science
  • Single
  • Military

• I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Preparation
  • Marathon
  • Calisthenics