William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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• I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Helping
  • Pregnancies

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• For I've finally realized that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Real
  • Help

• The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • World
  • Business
  • Character

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the breadth of it.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Help
  • Guy

• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  

  Weegee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Great
  • True
  • Help

• I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Travel

• When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • She
  • Help
  • Want

• I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Help
  • Want

• I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Women
  • Help

• All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.

  

  T.I.
  • World
  • Help
  • Effort

• I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Help
  • Way
  • Helping

• Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Song
  • Giving
  • Present

• My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

  

  Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
  • Hate
  • Helping
  • Forget

• On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Men
  • Grace
  • Clerks

• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Benefits

• It [making tron: Legacy movie] was everything. I got pulled into a different country, in a different language, and a different society. In a movie, it's a completely different feel. In car design you know you have one year, and you have to go step by step. This is an organized catastrophe.

  

  Daniel Simon
  • Different
  • Country
  • Design

• Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Helping
  • Clerks