Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

Terence McKenna

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• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Different
  • Today

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• Kids are very cruel to each other.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Cruel

• I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Walk

• I believe in music because it has the power of change.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Lucky

• When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • War
  • History

• I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Great
  • Green
  • Start

• From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Good
  • Why
  • English

• Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Athlete

• There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

  

  Ben Hogan
  • Different
  • Air
  • Golf

• The Rock has definitely set the bar. He's in a class by himself, and he always will be, I believe.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Believe
  • Rock

• I wanted a name on my shirt that represented who I am, and I feel I have no connection with the Alli surname.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Connection

• If I'm gonna stay in this world of comedy, then it has to be a really special character to me in a really smart piece of material.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • World
  • Character
  • Comedy

• The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

  

  James Cronin
  • Home
  • Peace

• People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Kind
  • Becoming