Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary. – Tim O’Brien
You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody’s so tired. – Zach Galifianakis
If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I’m not always right and people don’t always listen. – Tony Dungy
Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They’re the province of everybody. – Sheri Fink
I didn’t wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn’t help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you. – Yuri Kochiyama
If you just can’t seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you’ve had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you. – Victoria Osteen
Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not. – Sherrod Brown
I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice. – Stellan Skarsgard
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. – Vitruvius
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don’t work. They don’t help you understand why you’re eating more than your body wanted in the first place. – Susie Orbach
No other teammates can help you when you’re on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I’m going to race on my own, I’m going to train on my own. – Shani Davis
We have to remember we’re in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that’s why it’s so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. – Stephen Harper
You just can’t help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up. – Tate Donovan
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web. – Wally Schirra
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. – Walter Pater
‘Tree Fu Tom’ is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically move, which is a very important part of children’s development. – Sophie Aldred
I’ve worked with multiple directors throughout the ‘Saw’ series with a lot of conversations as they bring their particular installment to the screen. If I’ve been able to do anything throughout the course of these films, it’s been to help shape dialogue and to try to make things as delicate and as intelligent as I can. – Tobin Bell
An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director’s first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that’s not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable. – Tobin Bell
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: ‘Can I help, sir?’ ‘No thanks,’ says the blind bloke. ‘Just looking.’ – Tommy Cooper
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine. – Sergey Brin
If you really want to help make a difference while getting a true travel experience, consider a community-run trip. – Sheherazade Goldsmith
Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can’t help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it’s just not fair. It’s something I feel like I can help make a difference. – Shannon Elizabeth