My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. — John Webster Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side. — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, let me say, Erik Palladino, Paul Schulze, Ian Reed Kesler, even Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Carly Pope, we just had… — Aaron Korsh Copy Share Image
I believe it has changed so much because of the impact you can have from that position. You are so involved in… — Eric Berry Copy Share Image
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we… — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . .… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to try to be a 'cute guy.' I want to be Charles Laughton, or Oliver Reed, or Lon… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I’ve had pipe chanter reeds that have lasted me four or five years.” — Fergus Muirhead Copy Share Image
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries?… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image