Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
-
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
-
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
-
You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
-
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
-
If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
-
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
-
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
-
I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
-
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
-
When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
-
I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
-
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
-
I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
-
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
-
Larry's grandmother has died at age 104
-
With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.
-
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
