Bill Withers Quotes

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, It's not warm when she's away, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And she's always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Think
  • Doing

• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • She
  • Woman
  • Body

• There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Women
  • She
  • High

• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dance

• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
  • School
  • She

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Boys
  • Conservative
  • Weight

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Think
  • First
  • Contract

• When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

  

  Valerie June
  • Loved
  • Whitney Houston

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Character
  • Year

• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Eyes

• As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Long
  • Parents
  • Partnership

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • She
  • Evil
  • Cool

• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Women
  • She
  • Knowing

• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

  

  Tracy Lawrence

• I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Done
  • Failure

• Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, It's not warm when she's away, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And she's always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Long
  • She
  • Sunshine