Having Quotes

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

The best part of my life is having my kids.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.