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Terence McKenna Quotes

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Terence McKenna

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000

Topics

Building Language Earth Alive Become

I get the gold-digger part six times weekly. I can play those women into the ground, but I don't want someone telling me that's all I can do.

Jennifer Coolidge

Women Me Someone I Can Play Want

I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.

John Niven

War Sun Growing Up Cold Early Late

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

Maxine Kumin

Great Sometimes Beyond Muse Bone

I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.

John Hurt

Great Fun People Doctor Thought You

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.

Robert Gottlieb

Great Time Value Consistency House

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

Jeff Goodell

World You Look Profit Know Want

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

Michael Arad

Future Architecture Me Relationships

I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.

Ana de Armas

Work Good Start Career Cuba Real

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

Amos Lee

Rules Know Songwriting Real Really

It's never fun to get swept, but it's going to happen.

Steve Clevenger

Fun Never Happen Going Get Swept

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

Stephen Leacock

Born Said Lord Wheat

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

Stewart Copeland

Good Vision Great Job Opera Whole