"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."

“You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

“I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.”

Source : "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.

“If you don't get the ending you desire.... have faith in the magic of new beginnings.”

“It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.”

“Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth...”

“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”

Source : Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's remarks in a meeting of the PSOE federal committee whilst tabling a motion to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes to finance health spending, September 3, 2005.

“I don't like being treated differently.”

“I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.”