Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

Terence McKenna

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• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Help
  • Woman
  • Fly

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Careful

• I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • World
  • Thinking
  • End

• I've known Bret Michaels forever.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Forever
  • Known

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Men

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  

  Arthur Koestler

• I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • People
  • Car
  • Risk

• After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

  

  David Milch
  • Dad

• The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Words
  • Spirit
  • Personality

• I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • First
  • Season

• The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

  

  Eric Burdon

• A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Moon
  • Silver

• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Growth
  • Journey
  • Moon