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“In 1965, in Reed v. Van Hoven, a court determined (237 F.Supp. 48. W.D.Mich. 1965.) that it was permissible for students to pray over their lunch at school so long as no one knew they were praying - that is, they couldn't say words or move their lips, but they could pray only if no one knew about it!”

Ifs Long School Christian Moving Religious Students Praying Court Lips Determined Lunch Vans Reeds

Author:David Barton

“A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.”

Thinking Thoughtful Rockets Reeds

Author:Jose Bergamin

“It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.”

Stills Hard Today Given Alive Miracle Pops Live For Today Reeds Bowie

Author:Mick Rock

“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”

Together Song Courses Sound Water Nature Sky Fields Reflection Red Garden Rivers Sight Track Grass Tall Fleeting Clay Crops Sunny Reeds Canals Dripping Containers Ripening Splashing Gourds

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.”

Running Earth Together House Natural Space Middle Fashion Summer Winter Warm Over It Passages Roof Site Interiors Select Dwelling Reeds Trenches Very Cool Interior Space

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.”

Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers

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

Women Break Breeze Tempest Reeds

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Logic is a feeble reed, friend.”

Book:Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."”

Thinking Knows Firsts I Can Moments Together Saws Alive Cameras Woods Video Chemistry Auditions Thirteen Good Movie Reeds Video Cameras

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“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.”

Masters Died Everlasting Request Reeds Dwight Dwight Eisenhower

Author:Arnold Palmer

“This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.”

Littles Peace Hills Melody Reeds Flutes Over The Hill

Book:Gitanjali: Song Offerings

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings

“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.”

Years Ideas Helping Wanted Parent Four College Months Decided No Idea Help Me Four Years Reeds

Author:Steve Jobs

“That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.”

“I believe it has changed so much because of the impact you can have from that position. You are so involved in the game from both a pass and a run standpoint. Anyone that can have an impact on a game like that is going to be held to high standards. You have guys like Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu who make big-time plays which can change the outcome of the game.”

Believe Play Bigs Running Guy Games I Believe Position Changed Involved Standards Impact Outcomes Standpoint Reeds High Standards

Author:Eric Berry

“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Mind Looks May Use Strong Building Wind Broken Gold Weight Blow Scales Look Up Staff Rotten Reeds Furnaces Stand Strong

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.”

Men Made Remember Evil Black Guilt Deeds Guilty Reeds Crutches Slender

Book:The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes

Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes

“Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.”

Arrogant Reeds Brass

Book:The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935

Source: The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935

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

Thinking Force Diplomacy Rotten Reeds

Book:The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.”

Ifs Hard Might Ready Wind Ought Stones Charity Yield Touching Leafs Flexible Invincible Reeds Adamant

Book:A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Source: A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

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

Men Character Wind Reeds

Author:Magha

“A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.”

Sound Whispering Reeds Norfolk

Book:Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse

Source: Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse

“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?”

Looks I Can Actresses Icons Reeds

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.”

Kind Reading Bits Technology Century Approach Opposites Harder Hanging Out Widows 19th Century Iphone Reeds Toddler Faust Complete Opposites

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good.”

Ifs Made Play Pain Wind Ill Blow Woods Insane If I Could Tunes Horns Reeds Oboes

Author:Ogden Nash

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

Young Dies Peril Reeds

Author:Frank Herbert

“When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the reed, etc. But with the recorder, I receive an immediate response from the instrument. This is something that attracted me to the instrument, that I could immediately feel the response of what I was doing.”

Feels Play Wind Breaths Instruments Response Etc Reeds Flutes Recorders Oboes Wind Instruments

Author:Michala Petri

“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.”

People Made Said Enjoy Criticism Reeds Ishmael

Author:Ishmael Reed

“When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'”

Firsts Said Different Play Common Subjects Mets Etc Reeds Clarinet Goodman Mouthpiece

Author:Artie Shaw

“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.”

Artist Cities Growing Up Growing Land Rocks Dangerous New York Musician Clubs Hotel New York City Punk Punk Rock Velvet Reeds Chelsea Velvet Underground Cbgb

Author:Moby

“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.”

Writing Trying Kind Stuff Bob Favourite Dylan Reeds Lyricists

Author:Andrew VanWyngarden

“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".”

Stills Play Song Chance Combination Shakes Jimmy Reeds Hopkins Boogie

Author:Billy Gibbons

“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.”

Way Stories School Together Saws College High School Adolescence Uncles Academy Brooklyn Leading Me Wilson Reeds

Author:Aaron Brookner

“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.”

Way Writing Important Critics Admire I've Learned Reeds

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.”

Firsts Doe Different Bigs Happens Can Do Brain Like Me Producers Genre Dirty Swear Reeds Different Genres Dirty Talk

Author:Meghan Trainor

“Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may not be different, but in performing with it, it was a necessity to build it if I was going to perform and make scores with it. By making the instruments, it helped me compose the way I want.”

Ifs Way Want May Different Sound Term Instruments Performing Score Reeds Bagpipes

Author:Yoshi Wada

“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.”

Thinking Felt Listening Teenager Reeds

Author:John Darnielle

“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].”

Firsts Wells Let Me Casts Suits Guests Pope Outstanding Reeds

Author:Aaron Korsh

“I would love to see any one of those people again [Erik Palladino, Paul Schulze, Ian Reed Kesler, even Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Carly Pope,], and I definitely suspect we will see at least one or more of them again, but other than, obviously, Carly Pope, because we leave off anticipating seeing her again [in Suits], of the other ones, we have to figure out a way to make them come back and we haven't yet.”

People Way Seeing Havens Figures Suits Suspects Pope Reeds

Author:Aaron Korsh

“Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.”

Needs Heart Flower Rivers Hunger Seeds Endless Razors Reeds

Author:Bette Midler

“I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.”

Challenges Admire Traditional Narrative Reeds Ishmael

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“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.”

Giving War Pay Military Needed Hospitals Troops Hospitality Reeds Vets Dental Seminars Dental Work Free Money

Author:Matthew Lesko

“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.”

Life Years Has Beens Wisdom Growth Beauty Tree Genius Thousand Spring Thousand Years Oaks Reeds

Author:George Henry Lewes

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

Thinking Men Nature Inspiring Reeds

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

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

Life Littles Motivational Force Adventure Wind Encouragement Storm Reeds Bending Fine Feathers Bending Over

Book:The Fables of Aesop

Source: The Fables of Aesop

“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.”

Gay Twenties Heed Robes Reeds

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

“It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.”

World Firsts States Seems Natural Emotion Special Fine Library Curse Freak Reeds Creeks Malevolence Lobotomy Muskrats

Book:The Annie Dillard reader

Source: The Annie Dillard reader

“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”

Doe Soul Wisdom Spiritual Found Grows Lines Walks Path Journey Walking Mets My Soul Prophet Petals Reeds Lotuses Spiritual Soul

Author:Khalil Gibran

“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.”

Voice Sea Following Spices Reeds Flutes Nightingales Cobras Celebs

Author:Janet Fitch

“God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.”

World Inspirational Needs Trying Ends Pain Remember Passion Clear Wind Picks Breaths Longing Notes Lips Blow Reeds Flutes

Author:Rumi

“Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.”

Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley