Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

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• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • School
  • Home
  • House

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Different
  • May

• I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Funny
  • Try
  • Pause

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Level

• With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Respect

• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Heart
  • Brain

• To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Law
  • Color
  • Senior

• People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • People

• I have no dream. I shall no longer speak of Madrid. They don't want me. This is not a problem. I move forward; I am well in Dortmund.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Dream

• Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Help
  • Dying

• This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Fun

• I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

  

  Lauren Oliver
  • Book
  • Author

• Hearts was the pinnacle of my career. After I left, it really was downhill. Hearts is the club I always associate myself with, and I'm proud to have played for them.

  

  Drew Busby
  • Career
  • Proud

• I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Play

• I'm not anti-technology at all, really.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Technology

• When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • True
  • Miracle

• The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

  

  Terence McKenna
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