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

• It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Advice

• 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

• As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.

  

  Byron Howard
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• 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

• Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.

  

  Chad Stahelski
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Gun

• If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Remember

• 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 fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Theology passes; religion, as a sentiment or feeling of awe and reverence in the presence of the vastness and mystery of the universe, remains.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Feeling
  • Universe

• 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