I was trying to explain that this is actually a proper job but just feeling terribly ridiculous as real doctors and real patients were wheeled past, Gomez says, There are moments when you think: what am I doing with my life?

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Epicurus

Life is too short to learn German

Richard Porson

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

Mae West

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

Source Unknown

In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is ri

C.S. Lewis

You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.

Terry Pratchett

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Robert Burns

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Nicole Anderson

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Henry Ward Beecher

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics,that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.As cited in Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America by Gary LaFree 1998 : Moynihan is quoted in an article that appeared in Mickey Kaus, The Work Ethic State, The New Republic (1986) July 7:22-33, 23; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986).

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau