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“"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.”
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“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”
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“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.”
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“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!”
Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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“Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.”
Source : "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015. 
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“It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.”
Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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“Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.”
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“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.”
