1.
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
Stephen Malkmus
2.
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Caspar David Friedrich
3.
ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".
Billy Gibbons
4.
I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and sexually, that would seem to be a great asset in many areas.
Stan Lee
5.
All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.
Wayne Muller
6.
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.
John Betjeman
7.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
John Kenneth Galbraith
8.
I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.
Ronnie Lott
9.
Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
Joseph Conrad
10.
Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.
Christine Downing
11.
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
Toni Morrison
12.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
Jonathan Swift
14.
I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.
Tom Kenyon
15.
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
Noah Taylor
16.
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
Zoot Sims
17.
Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.
T. Davis Bunn
19.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Richard Whately
20.
David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.
Ishmael Reed
21.
BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.
Ellen Hopkins
22.
I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.
Arnold Palmer
23.
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
Frank Herbert
24.
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
Donald Miller
25.
Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.
Suzanne Weyn
26.
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.
Alexander Weinstein
27.
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
28.
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
William Watson
29.
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.
Henry Rollins
30.
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
Christopher Paolini
31.
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.
Geoffrey Chaucer