Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

Terence McKenna

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• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Virtue

• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Years
  • Speak
  • Speech

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thought
  • Poverty
  • Abundance

• We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Better
  • Spring

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Weird
  • Creative
  • Intelligence

• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• The way I look at it you can always get better.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Better
  • Look

• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Just

• I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Taken
  • Singing

• My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

  

  Jonathan King
  • King

• Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Science

• In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in a room with sixteen playwrights. I remember looking around and thinking that since I was sitting there, I must be a playwright, too.

  

  August Wilson
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Long
  • Power
  • Imagination

• The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Humans