Bill Withers Quotes
I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
Quotes to Explore
-
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
-
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
-
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
-
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
-
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
-
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
-
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
-
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
-
I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
-
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
-
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
-
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
-
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
-
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
-
I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
-
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
-
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
-
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
-
I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You know, things were a little bit sexier in a different way. Now, you know, I'm a mom, and I want to filter some of the things that I say.
-
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
-
I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.
-
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
-
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
-
I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
