Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Terence McKenna

• World
• Growing
• Should
• Species
• Psychedelic
• Hopeful

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Need

• It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Care
  • Poverty

• There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • Play
  • Old Age

• I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Day
  • Best
  • Husband

• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • She
  • Looking
  • Lady

• Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Company
  • Anybody

• But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Excellence

• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Freedom

• Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Job

• Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Daughter

• Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Star

• Seven daughters was never part of my plan.

  

  Jonathan Franklin
  • Plan
  • Seven
  • Daughters

• One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Child
  • Realities
  • Enriching

• As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Growing
  • Space
  • Champion

• I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Growing
  • Should