Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Terence McKenna

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Terence McKenna

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Terence McKenna

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Terence McKenna

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Alan Watts

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

Benjamin Franklin

Eat to live, don't live to eat.

Alexander Pope

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Richard Branson

The world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.

Richard Dawkins

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

Russell Baker

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

Roald Hoffmann

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Winston Churchill

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Kelli Berglund

I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

Louis Pasteur

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

Lord Byron

I awoke one day to find myself famous.

Rob Bell

There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

Whoopi Goldberg

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

William Booth

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Robert Jordan

Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Ovid

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Pete Wentz

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

Natalie Coughlin

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.