Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.

Terence McKenna

The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

Terence McKenna

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

Terence McKenna

Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Terence McKenna

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

Tedy Bruschi

I'm definitely playing next year. That's my ace in the hole. It's a little hard to sit back and watch the guys [this season], but it's easier knowing I've got something to look forward to.

Teju Cole

It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11.

Temple Grandin

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

Temple Grandin

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

Ted Koppel

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

Taylor Phinney

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

Ted Haggard

I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Shania Twain

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

Segolene Royal

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

Selma Blair

I was a smoker for about 20 years.

Selena Gomez

I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

Sean Lennon

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Sean Hannity

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

Sean Hannity

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.

Scott Joplin

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

Scott M. Gimple

When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."

Scott Lynch

Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

Scarlett Johansson

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

Scarlett Johansson

I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

Scarlett Johansson

I get tested for HIV twice a year.... One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It's just disgusting behaviour when people don't. It's so irresponsible.

Si Robertson

That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.

Shinichi Suzuki

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

Shinzo Abe

It has been more than 60 years since the constitution was put in place. There are provisions in the constitution that no longer suit the times. Since the constitution was promulgated, we've seen the emergence of new values, such as privacy, the environment and so on, which need to be incorporated.

Shinzo Abe

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.