Brion Gysin Quotes

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

Brion Gysin

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

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• 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

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• 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

• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Need
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• 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

• My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Rap

• My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Life
  • Father

• Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Life
  • Parts

• 'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was, 'This is a career record.' I was like, 'Why do you think that?' I think the stars aligned.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Career

• My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

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

  

  Brion Gysin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Game