Richard Evans Schultes Quotes

#1. Few things hurt more than doubt creeping into a life of conviction.
Go back to the last sure knowledge you have - the last revelation you know to be true and stand your ground. Stand firm and wait.
The Universe will send you aid and clarity.
Even if you can't see it at first.

Jaime Buckley

#2. I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

Carmen Electra

#3. You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

Richard Evans Schultes

#4. Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

Richard Evans Schultes

#5. Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Erica Jong

#6. One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.

Richard Evans Schultes

#7. I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Joe Klein

#8. I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Jason Mraz

#9. There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills ... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

Lucy Lawless

#10. The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Richard Evans Schultes

#11. Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Jodie Foster

#12. What people believe prevails over the truth.

Sophocles

#13. I no longer wonder whether something like me should be allowed to exist. I do exist.

Laure Eve

#14. I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

Ray Davies

#15. Guess I've been officially slapped on the wrist for fishing in the River of Dreams without a license. Hey, is that a peach?

Julie Kagawa

#16. In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

Tom Cole

#17. Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

Jeffrey Kluger

#18. I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

Beverley Mitchell