Top 100 Quotes About Reed
#1. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.
Charlotte Bronte
#2. My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
Gary Ross
#3. Soon as I heard it, I knew it was perfect! And finally, thanks to Jason Reed, Jennifer Gibgot, and Adam Shankman for their work on the film version
Nicholas Sparks
#4. Be silent like a rock, deeply rooted and straight like a tree, bend like a reed in the wind, listen to the sounds that your ears ignore, and feel the world through your intuition. The latter will never betray you, your senses will!
Irina Serban
#5. Unfortunately, I had a feeling I would never get to my bed as the vacuuming would strike me dead of an aneurysm. Death by Dyson. - Reed
Kate Brian
#6. Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it?
- Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)
John Byrne
#7. I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
Bill Gurley
#8. Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Richard Whately
#9. One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed
H.W. Brands
#11. The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#12. You are where I draw the line. They can have anything else that they want, but they cannot have you-not when I have breath in my body to prevent it. -Reed
Amy A. Bartol
#13. One of the detectives was later heard to comment that Perry Reed was officially in more trouble than any other single human being he'd ever encountered in the course of his entire career....
John Connolly
#14. Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.
Ron Currie Jr.
#15. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.
Nancy Pearl
#16. My best work is not behind me! He yells, You know, nobody does a better split-reed standing anal with an on-demand hands-free pop-shot release.
Chuck Palahniuk
#17. The Cossacks were led by their prince, Amazov, a legendary horseman and, Reed was relieved to find, "a most pleasant and helpful person.
Stephan Talty
#20. That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
Alan Parry
#21. Reading is the strangest art. Your eye takes a shape, turns it into music, then story, then spirit, so a curl of ink laid long ago by a sliver of reed can become, a thousand years later, your own breath.
Keith Miller
#22. 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
#23. I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.
Teddy Thompson
#24. Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.
Meghan Trainor
#25. Reed This:Sometimes people can be at two ends of a line and end up next to one another.Because intimacy and love-they're powerful enough to curve that line into a circle.
Max Monroe
#26. If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.
J. Michael Straczynski
#27. I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.
Anne Michaels
#28. I don't think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.
Ronnie Lott
#29. Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.
Walker Percy
#30. Use a condom. Those Reed men breed like rabbits." Then she walks into the booth with the others and we get set up to record some vocals. Rabbits. Little Reeds. I have to say, that's not an entirely bad thought.
Tammy Falkner
#31. Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission.
Walt Frazier
#32. You should know whatever game you're playing, you can't win. Not against all of us. If you leave now, you won't be hurt. If you stay, we'll break you so bad that you'll be crawling away."
- Reed Royal
Erin Watt
#33. 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
#34. Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo!
By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow,
By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us!
Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#35. I'd probably sleep like an angel but dream like the Devil, if the images of Reed didn't leave my sinful mind.
K.L. Middleton
#36. An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
Aesop
#37. 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
#38. Whether you reed or rite, accustom yourselves to stand at a high desk
Noah Webster
#39. With a bad reed, my oboe could be a beastly instrument honking and squeaking as if it had a mind of its own. When my reeds were working, though, I learned that making a sound spoke my emotions more directly than my own voice.
Blair Tindall
#40. The Candle Holder
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
Your light I wish to see.
I am the candle holder,
reveal yourself to me.
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#41. If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#42. At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.
John Daniel
#43. I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.
Johnny Rivers
#44. BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.
Ellen Hopkins
#45. My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day.
Salman Rushdie
#46. Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
Tom Stoppard
#47. Lou Reed drove Honda scooters these days, and I was a hell of a lot closer to the wild side than him.
Warren Moore
#48. The same theme can be found in Carol Reed's pioneering The Stars Look Down, in which three classic avenue of escape from the working class are posited: crime, football and education.
Peter Wollen
#49. Reed's blood is now mixed with mine, so that he is always with me, no matter where I am.
Amy A. Bartol
#50. I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.
John Darnielle
#51. My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
Jimmy Smith
#52. I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
Mary Lou Williams
#53. Reed couldn't have agreed more with his wolf. Tonight the three of them would spend the night in the same house. He just hoped they were together in the same bed when they did it. Preferably naked and sweaty with lots of intimate touching.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#54. I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.
Shelley Fabares
#55. Spider-Man: "Why'd it have to be Logan? If it had been Reed or Tony we would've already built a time machine out of bamboo and palm fronds by now and been on our way.
Jason Aaron
#56. Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Reed. I owe you big-time."
That's the kind of friend she is.
Robin Friedman
#57. The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact,
Julian Casablancas
#58. When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.
Moby
#59. Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.
Anthony Of Padua
#60. Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms
#61. Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine but had, instead, a firm reed of goodness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#62. Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain
For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#63. Reed, I should've protected myself against you, but I didn't and now you live here, inside of me," I say, pointing to my heart. "I won't ever be able to run from the love I have for you. Your name is written on my heart. I can't hide from it and it will wreck me if something happens to you -
Amy A. Bartol
#64. The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.
Annie Dillard
#65. This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
Rabindranath Tagore
#66. For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
Lou Reed
#67. At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#69. Be empty
and weep with the fullness of the reed flute.
Be empty
and discover the mysteries of the reed pen.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#70. Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
Billy Gibbons
#71. That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.
Cindy Gerard
#73. she thought maybe she'd be a rock star, but she just ended up another name on the very long list of people Lou Reed was rude to. Yeah,
Cari Luna
#74. I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
Steve Jobs
#75. I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
Charlotte Bronte
#76. I grin. "Good night, OMG." He slowly shakes his head back and forth while his eyes narrow playfully. "You're lucky I like you, Auburn Mason Reed." With that, he closes the door. "Oh my God," I whisper. I think I might have a crush on that boy.
Colleen Hoover
#77. It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
Alice James
#78. I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career.
Clive Davis
#79. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
Alexis Carrel
#80. Agent Reed returned this morning, ready for another round of what he calls an interview and what I refer to as an interrogation.
C.J. Roberts
#81. Everybody is fucked up and we are all freaks in our own ways-Agent Reed
C.J. Roberts
#82. I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
Linda Evans
#83. The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
Arto Lindsay
#84. I'm fucking good looking and sharp witted! I bet Reed only speaks one language. I'm sharp witted in five! - Caleb
C.J. Roberts
#85. Someone will love you, Miss Ruiz. Even if you're a jerk." "Fuck you, Reed," she sobbed.
C.J. Roberts
#86. Make yourself sleep? Oh, don't think of it that way." Reed let her pass him. "It's an indulgence, not a duty. 'Nature requires five, custom gives seven, laziness takes nine, and wickedness eleven.' Try to be wicked.
Caroline Stevermer
#87. There were times when it was better to beg forgiveness than ask for identification. Reed
Evan Currie
#88. I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."
Catherine Hardwicke
#89. Come back over in an hour. Then you, Auburn Mason Reed, I will completely devour.
Colleen Hoover
#90. 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
#91. Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Robert A. Heinlein
#92. The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
Bayard Taylor
#93. When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
Michael Rapaport
#94. Reed laughed, followed by Scott, and then Zack. Kat finally let out a little guffaw of her own, and I started to join them but stopped. I was here, in my little oasis, hostile people all around, but my friends closest, surrounding me.
Robert J. Crane
#95. I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.
Jonathan Banks
#96. If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night ... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.
Ryan Adams
#97. He will give his life, for anything he feels has more of a right to live than he. Make no mistake, Elias. He's a Reed. It's what he does.
Allie Burke
#98. Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.
David Bowie
#99. Yet we flatter our strength unduly when we compare it even to a reed stick! For whatever vain men devise and babble concerning these matters is but smoke. Therefore Augustine with good reason often repeats the famous statement that free will is by its defenders more trampled down than strengthened.
John Calvin
#100. Reed kissed her softly. Live for now. Find your way. We can still be together. Forever. Don't think about the unknown and what could happen when we don't even know what is happening.
Carrie Ann Ryan
