Reeds Quotes

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.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

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".

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.

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.

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

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.

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

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.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

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.

I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

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.

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.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

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.

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.

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

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.

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.

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

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.

BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.