Top 232 Reed Quotes & Sayings

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

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

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 Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

Not everybody likes Ed Reed.

My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

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 with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

The song 'Eastbound and Down' by Jerry Reed is, of course, a personal favorite.

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 of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.'

When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.

I've been out to Walter Reed on unannounced visits. I've seen these soldiers. I've met their families.

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 who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.

Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with.

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.

'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.

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. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling...Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

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 instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

Grover wore his fake feet and his pants to pass as human. He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. His bright orange backpack was full of scrap metal and apples to snack on. In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 and Hilary Duff's "So Yesterday," both of which sounded pretty bad on reed pipes.

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

When I read a book, it's Lou Reed's voice narrating it.

I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

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!

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

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.

BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.

Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.

Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

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

I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.

There's only one Ed Reed, man. No matter how you coach it, no matter how you line it up, there's only one Ed Reed.

Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Shelby Reed - these are my pre-order, must-have authors.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

Patrick Reed has become a hell of a player.

No matter what Jordan Reed is doing - when he's on the field he has his own role and he's an amazing football player.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I don't sing white; I don't sing black - I sing Bronx. When I sing 'Ruby Baby,' I'm rolling like Jimmy Reed. I wanted to communicate like Hank Williams and groove like Jimmy Reed.

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 looking for truth.

A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

I love Hermes, Lanvin, Brunello Cucinelli, Reed Krakoff, Alice + Olivia and Nanette Lepore.