Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Die

• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Great
  • Know

• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Chicago
  • Exchange

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I am after ME his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Question
  • Painting
  • Sun

• The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

  

  David Jolly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Proud

• I'd rather go by bus.

  

  Prince Charles

• When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Live
  • Control

• I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm a real hoarder.

  

  Lily James
  • Real

• It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Pretty

• We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Up
  • Depression

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Power
  • Constitution

• You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Travel
  • Engineering

• This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • People
  • Time

• What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • World
  • Freaky