Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• Money? I lost all taste for it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Taste

• I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Name

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Depression

• We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Law
  • Moral

• Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Long

• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  

  Aleister Crowley

• 'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'

  

  Kid Cudi

• I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Beginning
  • Drawing

• The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • People
  • Job
  • Christian

• There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

  

  Klaus Lackner
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Innovation

• Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

  

  Elijah Cummings
  • Children
  • Childhood

• Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…

  

  R. M. Williams
  • School
  • Education
  • Leave

• Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • People
  • World
  • Challenges

• Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover,Sleeping at last.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Struggle

• You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Struggle
  • Stories
  • Plant