Reeds famous quotes

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

#Loss #Reeds #Trials

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
-- Caspar David Friedrich

#Reeds #Sand #Divine

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow...
-- Christine Downing

#Knowledge #Water #Reeds

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
-- Christopher Paolini

#Battle #Reeds #Triumphant

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

#Cowboy #Reeds #Naked

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
-- Machado de Assis

#Men #Thinking #Reeds

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
-- Noah Taylor

#Cash #Reeds #Fans

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
-- Sally Phillips

#Crush #Firsts #Reeds

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Reeds

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, who speak their songs.
-- Stephen Malkmus

#Song #Singers #Reeds

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

#Tattoo #Reeds #Wrists

Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.
-- T. Davis Bunn

#Reeds #Endless #Uncaring

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

#Bob #Reeds #Musician

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

#Tuning #Information #Reeds

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 is our life.
-- Wayne Muller

#Blow #Wind #Reeds

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
-- Zoot Sims

#Music #Mom #Reeds

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.
-- Alexander Weinstein

#Challenges #Narrative #Reeds

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.
-- Ronnie Lott

#Thinking #Reeds #Position

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
-- William Watson

#Arrogant #Reeds #Brass