All Quotes

Having the book-club army embrace you is a gift that keeps giving for years.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'
‐‐ Sean Covey

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
‐‐ Eli Wallach

Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.
‐‐ Rocky Wirtz

Having the last name 'Bloomberg' sucks.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

Having the name 'Bloomberg' doesn't help me in any way... and it really is a disadvantage and takes away from the image I'm trying to portray.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
‐‐ Robert Crippen

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.
‐‐ Maria Bartiromo

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.
‐‐ Elsa Pataky

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

Having the respect of your peers means the world to me.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
‐‐ Chris Brown

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
‐‐ Tia Carrere

Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.
‐‐ Lena Headey

Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
‐‐ Jack Kent Cooke

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.
‐‐ Clare Balding

Having to go back and forth between school and filming would sometimes be frustrating because I loved school. It was my chance to be around other people my age. But when you're leaving school to go to a set that's filled with kids your age, then it's fine.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.
‐‐ Susan Ford

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.
‐‐ Henry Selick

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
‐‐ Nick Earls

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

Having too many ideas is not always a good thing.
‐‐ Paul Arden

Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.
‐‐ Abigail Disney

Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are here, but also because Nottingham is such a vibrant city.
‐‐ Nicola Monaghan

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.
‐‐ Roger Federer

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.
‐‐ Jocelyn Moorhouse

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
‐‐ Adam McKay

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
‐‐ Andy Roddick

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
‐‐ David Byrne

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
‐‐ Peter Mandelson

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Having watched television, I would kind of play the role or picture myself on a television show or something like that. That's maybe always been true of a certain type of kid, even before television maybe, but I think it's been amplified to an insane level.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

Having Wayne in town will be exciting enough.
‐‐ Paul Coffey

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.
‐‐ Chuck Tanner

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
‐‐ J Allard

Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.
‐‐ Ellen Malcolm