Reed Quotes

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. (Blaise Pascal)
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. View quote
Aesop
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 at the proper time in the proper way. View quote
Lee Konitz
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own. View quote
Plutarch
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. View quote
Ryan Adams
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 through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. View quote
David Eddings
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish. View quote
Henry Winkler
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 I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all. View quote
Alan Vega
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. (Arto Lindsay)
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 some things. View quote
Jeff Daniels
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 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good. View quote
Linda Evans
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 little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room. View quote
Mary Lou Williams
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed. View quote
Matthew Lesko
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. View quote
Mick Rock
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan. View quote
Noah Taylor
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. View quote
Stephen Malkmus
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 an ancient vibration. View quote
Steve Lacy
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim. View quote
Xenophon
Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair Who glory to have thrown in air, High over arm, the trembling reed, By Ale and Kail, by Till and Tweed. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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 disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. 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. View quote
Alexis Carrel
I am much obliged to you for your last letter, and the lessons reed, before. I think I now begin to see a little into the nature of modulation and the introduction of flats and sharps; and when we meet you shall hear me play extempore.. [his friend William Jackson of Exeter was composer and organist]. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way. View quote
Orson Scott Card
It was June, 1933, one week after Commencement, when Kay Leiland Strong, Vassar '33, the first of her class to run around the table at the Class Day dinner, was married to Harald Petersen, Reed '27, in the chapel of St. George's Church, P. E., Karl F. Reiland, Rector. View quote
Mary McCarthy