Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

Terence McKenna

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Youth

• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Game
  • Football
  • Youth

• Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Always
  • Altruism

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Will
  • Seeing
  • Racial

• The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Help
  • Find

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Girl

• The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poetry
  • Impossible
  • Self

• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Single
  • Regret

• A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Light
  • Learning

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

  

  Kid Cudi

• 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

• If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that's probably not a brand you want to work with anyway.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Work
  • Black

• 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

• I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Time
  • Home

• I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

  

  Jane Green
  • Work
  • School
  • Kids

• Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Knowledge

• What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Return
  • Psychedelic