Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Does

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Job
  • American
  • Speak

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Speak
  • I Can

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Never
  • Speak
  • Quiet

• If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Speak
  • Sense
  • Europe

• I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • School
  • Experience
  • History

• I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Think
  • English
  • Teeth

• I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Know
  • Speak

• For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Lost
  • English
  • Process

• It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Together
  • Speak
  • Honest

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can't live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.

  

  Tyler James Williams
  • Music
  • Live
  • Sleep

• Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Interest
  • Common
  • Selfish

• Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • English
  • Speak
  • Dutch