Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

Terence McKenna

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• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Me

• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • May
  • Powerful
  • Others

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • City
  • Football
  • Son

• Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Body

• Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Human Beings
  • Manager
  • Regulations

• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.'

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • People
  • Music
  • Shoes

• The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Escape
  • Distinction
  • Legion of Honor

• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Reason
  • Instant