Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

Terence McKenna

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• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Show
  • Product
  • Strive

• Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • See
  • Go
  • Let Go

• 'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Community
  • Government
  • Feel

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Women
  • Always
  • Inspired

• The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • Women
  • Christian

• When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Answer
  • Get

• The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Worst
  • Romance
  • Unromantic

• I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Jesus
  • Prayer
  • Perseverance

• I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Judgement
  • Patients
  • Regimen

• If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wind
  • Flood

• It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall, making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had still appeared to be a living beauty.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Book
  • Fall
  • Summer

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Job
  • Fiction
  • Dust

• Painting is another form of thinking.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Thinking
  • Painting
  • Form

• Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Fiction
  • Form
  • Understood