quotes about Reeds
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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 to lean upon.
-- Alice JamesSource : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
-- Caspar David FriedrichSource : "Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula" by Saviour Catania in Literature Film Quarterly, 2004.
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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 -
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
-- Christopher Paolini -
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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 GerardSource : Cindy Gerard (2008). “Whisper No Lies”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
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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 AssisSource : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”
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But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
-- Noah Taylor -
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
-- Sally Phillips -
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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 seem to be a great asset in many areas.
-- Stan Lee -
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 -
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 -
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 BunnSource : T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House
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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 -
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 -
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 MullerSource : Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.46, Bantam
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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 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 -
I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.
-- Ronnie Lott -
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”