Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The danger is in using psychedelic drugs, just to put it out there, is madness.

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Love
  • Days
  • Cut

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • May
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Floor

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Beginning

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Fashion

• My father always made an amazing meatloaf, and I've inherited his skill. Leftover meatloaf in a sandwich? Come on!

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Father
  • Amazing

• When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

  

  Liu Wen
  • Friends
  • English

• Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

  

  Dawn French
  • Interesting

• When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'

  

  Dean Winters
  • Car
  • Snow
  • Bike

• I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Great
  • Truth
  • True

• John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.

  

  Brett Young
  • Forever

• The fifties were when people started coming down on 'juvenile delinquents,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals'-anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • People
  • Motorcycle

• Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Music
  • Men’s fashion
  • Military heritage

• I think I have become a very strong person. If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.

  

  Nneka
  • World
  • Concerned
  • Nigeria

• Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
  • Broken
  • Daily
  • Drug

• i doubt the validity of those claims to godhood which are derived from mystical experiences, either self- or drug-induced. (and there are no other claims to godhood except those derived from insanity or derangement.) i doubt the subjective experience, auberson, because it cannot be passed on, nor can it be proven, measured or tested.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Experience
  • Doubt
  • Drug

• The danger is in using psychedelic drugs, just to put it out there, is madness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Danger
  • Madness