Brion Gysin Quotes

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Tell
  • Outside

• I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Real
  • Know
  • Me

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Want
  • Know
  • Old

• I'm known for my handwritten notes.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Known
  • Notes

• My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Running
  • Exercise

• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Think

• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Start

• Human reason is by nature architectonic.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature

• We drank a toast to innocenceWe drank a toast to now.And tried to reach beyond the emptinessBut neither one knew how.

  

  Dan Fogelberg

• Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Car

• Du im Voraus verlorne Geliebte, Nimmergekommene, nicht weiß ich, welche Töne dir lieb sind. Nicht mehr versuch ich, dich, wenn das Kommende wogt, zu erkennen.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Life
  • Today
  • Society

• While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • People
  • Life
  • Faith

• There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Real

• Some of the best things...take time.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Time
  • Best
  • Things

• I have done my best. I saw a fatal flaw in the camera industry. We did our best to address it.

  

  James Jannard
  • Done

• I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Game