Hougardy Hannut Quotes & Sayings

There is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to the fact that in our competitive, perfectionist culture, in which the price woman are required to pay for freedom still seems to be martyrdom, almost everyone lies about motherhood. Part of that lying is loyalty - I can't let on that my kid is the only one on the playground who can't read or play the piano - and part of it is self-protection, since we've made hyper-motherhood a measure of female success. The preferred answer to the question "How are you?" is always "Fine," and the answer to the question "How are the kids?" is supposed to be "Great!" That's true even if the accurate answers would be "terrible" and "a mess." I think it produces its own kind of desperation, especially for women, who yearn to be emotionally open. — Anna Quindlen

You going to try the rest of your gear on?" he asked on an exhale. "Or you want to whine about your pants a little more?"
"Don't make me flip you off."
"Why would I deprive you of a favorite hobby?" [Vishous to Butch] — J.R. Ward

I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire. — Matt McGorry

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times. — Ryan Reynolds

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. — John Griffin Carlisle

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee. — Rob Zombie

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~ — Kasey Michaels

It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute. — Jon Gordon

But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock. — Hans Christian Andersen

The planet is finished with us, at this point - — Zadie Smith

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Theater is where I have the most experience and feel most at home, but I'm really, really loving film. — Andre Holland

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos , but as a philo-sophos , someone on the way toward wisdom. — Pierre Hadot

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want. — Billy Williams