Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

Terence McKenna

• Community
• Social
• Crisis
• Critical
• Psychological
• Description

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Good
  • School
  • Thought

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Math
  • Girls
  • PR

• Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Why
  • Profit
  • E-Commerce

• If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Engineering
  • Engineer

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  

  Laura Riding
  • People
  • She
  • Knowledge

• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Risk

• Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Drunk

• We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People

• I look at Canada like a second home.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Home

• The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Up
  • Different

• I want my mom on 'Scream Queens'. She could play someone who is convinced she's Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila.

  

  Billie Lourd
  • She
  • Mom
  • Princess

• It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Fun

• Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • Book
  • Energy

• Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Spring

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Community
  • Social
  • Crisis