Reed Quotes
110 Reed quotes by 100 unique authors
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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…
— Aesop
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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…
— Linda Evans
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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…
— Anne Michaels
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The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
— Arto Lindsay
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When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize…
— Deepak Chopra
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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could…
— Legs McNeil
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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…
— Stan Lee
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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…
— Ryan Adams
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I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the ‘hollow reed’…
— Tom Kenyon
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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him — it was so matter-of-fact,
— Julian Casablancas
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If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
— Toby Stephens
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Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you…
— David Eddings
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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
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Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing,…
— Stephen Malkmus
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People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so…
— Alan Vega
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The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows…
— Frederick Lenz
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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 authentically…
— Donald Miller
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We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as…
— Henry Moseley
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I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
— Kevin Costner
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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
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I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question…
— Jeff Daniels
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What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be…
— Woody Allen
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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 think…
— Josh Gad
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But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
— Noah Taylor
Who Wrote These Reed Quotes
100 authors contributed a total of 110 Reed Quotes, led by these top contributors: