The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.


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About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV
I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN
What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE
The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK
Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV
Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN
Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD
Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK
I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE
Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT
Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN
We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because w...
PETER GELDERLOOS
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice th...
PETER KREEFT
There is a pain you can’t think your way out of. You can’t talk it away. If there was someone to...
PETER HELLER
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE
If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER
That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID
Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL
Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING