Mckennan Quotes & Sayings

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, 'the aesthetic event'. — Jorge Luis Borges

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace. — Mel Torme

The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve together. The Georgian SS division conducted itself with distinction in normal military action, but a good many people seem to think that anybody who was ever a member of the SS was automatically a war criminal. — Jeff Cooper

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag. — Jamie Dornan

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves ... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot. — Keith Rabois

The interlocking network of stalks and branches and creepers was skeletal, the fossil yard of an extinct species of fineboned insectoid creatures. all of these bones, then, seemed to have been stained by sun and earth from an original living white to brown, and not the tough fibrous flower and seed-spilling green they actually once had been. Howard wondered about a man who had never seen summer, a winter man, examining the weeds and making this inference
that he was looking at an ossuary. the man would take that as true and base his ideas of the world on that mistake. — Paul Harding

I remember feeling it even then- the sensation that your heart weighs more than your body- that it might burst out of your chest and splatter all over the wall. I suppose it's called loneliness. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I am unbalanced - but I am not mad with snow. I am mad the way young girls are mad, with an offering, an offering ... I burn the way money burns. — Anne Sexton

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with. — Shirley Maclaine