Top 100 Quotes About Lou Reed
#1. I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
Lou Reed
#2. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Reed Markham
#3. I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.
Lou Reed
#4. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
J.C. Ryle
#5. I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.
Ishmael Reed
#6. I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.
Matthew Lesko
#7. There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.
Oliver Reed
#8. I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.
Lou Reed
#9. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his helmet.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#11. I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
Oliver Reed
#12. I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories
Lou Reed
#13. The only thing standing between her and her beautiful new home was her own silly insecurity and Matt Reed.
Samantha Chase
#14. If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.
Jimmy Reed
#15. Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.
Charlotte Bronte
#16. Home isn't a place; it's a feeling; it's the people who make you feel that you belong.
I know that I belong here, with him, by his side.
J.C. Reed
#17. assume they both took a road trip. The
J.C. Reed
#18. The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
Reed Hastings
#19. Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.
Lou Reed
#20. I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.
Charlotte Bronte
#21. Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
Myrtle Reed
#22. The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
John Shelton Reed
#23. Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
Rex Reed
#24. When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
Oliver Reed
#25. I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
Oliver Reed
#26. To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!
Ed Reed
#27. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.
Fred Reed
#29. I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.
Lou Reed
#30. You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.
Lou Reed
#31. Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
Joseph Conrad
#32. Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.
Kristen Reed
#33. People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.
Nikki Reed
#34. When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
Elizabeth Warren
#35. Things always seem to end before they start
Lou Reed
#36. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.
Nicole Reed
#37. Here's to Mulberry Jane
She made jam when she came
Somebody cut off her feet
Now jelly rolls in the street.
Lou Reed
#38. When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.
Myrtle Reed
#39. There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.
Philip Kitcher
#40. Kenny just shook his head and pointed at the now closed envelope, his look devoid of emotion. "She's pretty." He had always been good at not saying what he thought. It was the reason why he stayed out of trouble - unlike Jett. "Yeah.
J.C. Reed
#41. Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.
Ishmael Reed
#42. If you fall it is not the end, for you shall win if you rise again.
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#43. Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
Sara Teasdale
#44. And I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.
Amy Reed
#45. Jerusalem, 61 AD Mariamne dipped her reed pen into the shallow wooden bowl of charcoal and olive oil ink and began writing her last entry on the parchment page in front of her.
Jerry Harber
#46. I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.
Lou Reed
#47. For some reason, young girls, they don't want the guy that's just there.
Nikki Reed
#48. Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
#49. From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.
Tom Reed
#50. I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.
Nikki Reed
#51. I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.
Nikki Reed
#52. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.
Myrtle Reed
#53. If I had more confidence, I would rock a crop top.
Nikki Reed
#54. People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.
Lou Reed
#55. Why don't you swallow razor blades?
Lou Reed
#56. There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.
Paula Reed
#57. If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
Donna Reed
#58. I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.
Reed Mullin
#59. Yes, you made me want my future again. The only problem is, he was my future first." ~ Jay
Nicole Reed
#60. Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
Jerry Reed
#61. Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.
Donna Reed
#62. The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
Confucius
#63. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.
J.C. Reed
#65. I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!
Crystal Reed
#66. Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.
Lou Reed
#67. Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
Reed Hastings
#68. I clicked on the link, which showed a picture of a reed-thin blond woman with an artfully tousled chignon smiling as she stood
Jojo Moyes
#69. I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Lou Reed
#70. I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.
Nikki Reed
#71. I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?
Jerry Reed
#72. His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
Janet Fitch
#73. Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.
Nikki Reed
#74. As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.
Ishmael Reed
#75. I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.
Nikki Reed
#76. The monkey said, "Bad. Bad, shitty bad.
Robert Reed
#77. He said he thought I was about twenty. Which is still too young. But not running-from-the-law young.
Kirsten Reed
#78. There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.
Paul Reed Smith
#79. You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe.
Martha Reed
#80. They all did. "Then tell him you came to see me and I specifically told you I'm not available." Emma's eyes widened just a little bit more, if that was even possible. Her
J.C. Reed
#81. It has often been said that [ ... ] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.
Robert Reed
#82. The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.
Lauren DeStefano
#83. I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."
Ishmael Reed
#84. When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.
Jerry Reed
#85. Guys get injuries and there's a reason why these injuries happen. A lot of time you're going to get your knee injuries and your ankle injuries, but sometimes if a guy's back is hurting it might be because his core isn't balanced with his back.
Andre Reed
#86. I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.
Ishmael Reed
#87. Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.
Ishmael Reed
#88. I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Lou Reed
#89. After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.
Lee Konitz
#90. DJ Qualls and I have been best friends for I don't even know how long - since I was a kid, 14, 15, many, many years.
Nikki Reed
#91. I've always thought my flowers had souls.
Myrtle Reed
#92. I feel myself floating without the weight of him on my body.
Amy Reed
#93. Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.
Rex Reed
#94. How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?
Lou Reed
#95. She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.
Jerry Reed
#96. I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.
Lou Reed
#97. When one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.
Myrtle Reed
#98. If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
Henry Reed
#99. We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.
Reed Hastings
#100. In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.
Myrtle Reed
