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Logic is a feeble reed, friend.
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.
He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!
Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.
I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.
Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.
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.
