Having Quotes

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to.I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.