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Image of Terence McKenna
If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Mean
Image of Terence McKenna
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Maher
I'm more likely to not invite someone back for not talking. If someone talks a lot, I can usually shut them up and control them. But with people who don't talk, if they don't really want to talk, they probably shouldn't be on this show, and that's fine. They're talented people with things to say, but sometimes people say what they have to say through other means than arguing.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Mean
Image of Anthony de Mello
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
- Anthony de Mello
Collection: Mean
Image of Courtney Love
I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.
- Courtney Love
Collection: Mean
Image of David E. Cooper
It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.
- David E. Cooper
Collection: Mean
Image of Margaret Mahy
Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
- Margaret Mahy
Collection: Mean
Image of Steve McQueen
Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.
- Steve McQueen
Collection: Mean
Image of Beth Grant
I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and I have this whole thing where she's very light and dressed in pink and dancing Gaelic dances and throwing roses, but then when her husband's coming home, she does incantations and pulls her hair back, puts on a black leather trenchcoat. I mean, I could tear it up if somebody would give me the chance! But do you think someone would ever let me do Lady Macbeth? I doubt it. But I'm going to keep talking about it.
- Beth Grant
Collection: Mean
Image of Mignon McLaughlin
A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Mean
Image of Maurice Maeterlinck
(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Collection: Mean
Image of Richelle Mead
Gaining superpowers doesn't mean you know how to use them.
- Richelle Mead
Collection: Mean
Image of Terence McKenna
I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Mean
Image of Rhys Darby
I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.
- Rhys Darby
Collection: Mean
Image of Rhys Darby
I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.
- Rhys Darby
Collection: Mean
Image of Yann Martel
To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
- Yann Martel
Collection: Mean
Image of James Madison
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting the federal legislature, would fail either to detect or to defeat a conspiracy of the latter against the liberties of their common constituencies.
- James Madison
Collection: Mean
Image of Mary J. Miller
Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).
- Mary J. Miller
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul McCartney
What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
- Paul McCartney
Collection: Mean
Image of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Collection: Mean
Image of Maimonides
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
- Maimonides
Collection: Mean
Image of Steve Martin
What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.
- Steve Martin
Collection: Mean
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Mean
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Mean
Image of John Mayer
We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...
- John Mayer
Collection: Mean
Image of Rich Lowry
What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism?
- Rich Lowry
Collection: Mean
Image of John Perry Barlow
I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.
- John Perry Barlow
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Image of John McCain
I can tell you that I think America is safer today than it was on 9/11. But that doesn't mean that we don't have a long way to go.
- John McCain
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Image of Richelle Mead
And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.
- Richelle Mead
Collection: Mean
Image of Garth Greenwell
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.
- Garth Greenwell
Collection: Mean
Image of George R. R. Martin
I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Mean
Image of Frank McCourt
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
- Frank McCourt
Collection: Mean
Image of Dave Matthews
Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.
- Dave Matthews
Collection: Mean
Image of Karl Marx
Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Mean
Image of Nelson Mandela
Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Mean
Image of Audre Lorde
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
- Audre Lorde
Collection: Mean
Image of Brennan Manning
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
- Brennan Manning
Collection: Mean
Image of Ramana Maharshi
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
- Ramana Maharshi
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Image of Ramana Maharshi
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
- Ramana Maharshi
Collection: Mean
Image of John Marshall
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.
- John Marshall
Collection: Mean
Image of John Marshall
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.
- John Marshall
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Image of Shauna Niequist
I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves
- Shauna Niequist
Collection: Mean
Image of George R. R. Martin
When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Mean
Image of Thabo Mbeki
The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the Airport. But, the growth in movement of goods by air means that cargo capacity needs to be improved. And I am quite certain that we will do it.
- Thabo Mbeki
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Image of Phil McGraw
If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.
- Phil McGraw
Collection: Mean
Image of Max Lucado
God uses every possible means to communicate with you.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Mean
Image of Catherine Camus
Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics it's the same. Economics wanted to take into account theory over and above human criteria, or the parameter 'man'.
- Catherine Camus
Collection: Mean
Image of Karl Marx
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Mean