The reeds give way to the wind and give the wind away

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…

— Donald Miller

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I…

— Josh Gad

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band…

— Ron Currie Jr

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

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances…

— Walter Scott

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and…

— Virginia Woolf

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him…

— Arnold Palmer

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.…

— Anne Michaels

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

— Arto Lindsay

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People…

— Henry Rollins

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Frank Herbert

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third…

— Joseph Cotten

Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see…

— John Burnham Schwartz