Having Quotes

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Life is all about having a good time.

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I hate having people sit in on meetings.

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming?

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.