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I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. -- Robert Wilson
Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults. -- Timothy Simons
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. -- Tom Stoppard
I love Hermes, Lanvin, Brunello Cucinelli, Reed Krakoff, Alice + Olivia and Nanette Lepore. -- Kelly Rutherford
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed. -- Zoot Sims
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. -- Sally Phillips
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan. -- Noah Taylor
I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys. -- Jimmy Smith
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong. -- Arto Lindsay
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side. -- Michael Rapaport
BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar. -- Ellen Hopkins
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.' -- Michael Rapaport
I don't think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY. -- Ronnie Lott
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game. -- Alan Parry
Quinton: I think if every person had a Nova Reed in this world, then life would be a little sunnier. -- Jessica Sorensen
It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived. -- Mick Rock
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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
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. -- Charlotte Bronte
One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed -- H.W. Brands
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 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
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
I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me. -- John Darnielle
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out. -- Ron Currie Jr.
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. -- Jeff Daniels
Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it. -- David Bowie
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. -- Ellie Goulding
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. -- Donald Miller
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ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie". -- Billy Gibbons
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
There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann. -- Philip Kitcher
My friend Lou Reed came to the end of his song. So very sad.But hey, Lou, you'll always take a walk on the wild side. Always a perfect day. -- Salman Rushdie
Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either. -- Bill Vaughan
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. -- Henry Winkler
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer. -- Teddy Thompson
I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie. -- Big Smo
I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever. -- Jonathan Banks
Well, first of all, let me say, Erik Palladino, Paul Schulze, Ian Reed Kesler, even Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Carly Pope, we just had an outstanding cast of a guest cast in [Suits]. -- Aaron Korsh
Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them. -- Joseph Cotten
I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed. -- Arnold Palmer
At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter. -- John Daniel
Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres. -- Henry Rollins
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. -- Matthew Lesko
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." -- Matthew Lesko
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
I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career. -- Clive Davis
I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? -- Steve Jobs
I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry, -- Diana Vreeland
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
Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that. -- Andrew VanWyngarden
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. -- Alan Vega
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. -- David Eddings
I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me." -- Dion DiMucci
As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf. -- Al Franken
There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron? -- Natasha Lyonne
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. -- Theo Epstein
You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven -- Ellen Schreiber
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs. -- J. Michael Straczynski
When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous. -- Moby
David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed. -- Ishmael Reed
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. -- Lou Reed
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. -- Johannes Brahms
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. -- Blaise Pascal
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. -- Aesop
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. -- Steve Lacy
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. -- Lee Konitz
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? -- Khalil Gibran
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. -- Mary Lou Williams
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. -- Linda Evans
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. -- Xenophon
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 that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay. -- Josh Gad
I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it. -- Bat for Lashes
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. -- Robert A. Heinlein
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly. -- Jose Bergamin
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril. -- Frank Herbert
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. -- Magha
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. -- Richard Whately
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant! -- Christopher Paolini
The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon. -- Joseph Conrad
The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. -- Confucius
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her -- Sara Teasdale
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
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. -- George Henry Lewes
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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
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
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
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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 and a little bit above. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings. -- Alice Smith
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres. -- Lord Byron
His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute. -- Janet Fitch

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