Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

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• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Brother

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• The war against terrorism is one we must win.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • War

• Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Free
  • Control
  • Action

• I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Marketing

• Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • People
  • Funny

• Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Risk
  • Courage
  • Optimistic

• I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Mother
  • Drama
  • Option

• We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • War
  • America
  • Respect

• The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto-not just as regards students but also professors.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Black
  • Color

• The chief of staff says I'm the guy.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Guy

• Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Men
  • Growing
  • Positive

• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Spiritual
  • Goal

• At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • New
  • New York
  • Festival

• Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Nature

• Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spiritual
  • Drug
  • Periods