Reed Quotes
110 Reed quotes by 100 unique authors
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
— Sally Phillips
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Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.…
— Anthony of Padua
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed…
— Garrison Keillor
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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…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people…
— Gale Harold
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Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man…
— Joseph Cotten
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O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not.…
— Joseph Brant
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A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives…
— Tucker Viemeister
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We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever…
— Ernest Holmes
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But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in…
— Aaron Swartz
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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of…
— Alexis Carrel
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There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change…
— James E. Faust
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My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
— Zoot Sims
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I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I…
— Diana Vreeland
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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…
— Alice James
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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…
— Lee Konitz
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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…
— Mary Lou Williams
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It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really…
— Steve Lacy
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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…
— Wayne Muller
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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…
— John Daniel
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I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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