"I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty."

-- Sebastian Horsley

#Mirrors Quotes #Looks Quotes #Environment Quotes

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Source : Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.”
“I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.”
“I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.”

Source : "Interview: Lizzy Caplan on the ‘Party Down’ cancellation". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 02, 2010.
“Knowledge is the only elegance.”
“The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.”
“I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.”
“We had a lot of people say, you guys are the most ineffective legislators in Olympia and your bills never go anywhere ... They can't say that anymore, can they?”

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