Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam

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• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Cool
  • Voice

• My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Hard

• Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Fiction

• It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Water
  • Decision

• [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Moments
  • Doubt
  • See

• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Night
  • Black
  • Sweet

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Food
  • Take

• I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.

  

  Rachel Hawkins
  • Life
  • Why
  • Facts

• Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Work
  • Mean

• Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Facebook
  • President Bush

• You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Intellectually Purge

• Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

  

  William Cowper
  • Giving
  • Prayer
  • Sweet

• There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sorrow
  • Despair
  • Prodigious

• Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Life is

• The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Sorrow
  • Grows
  • Denied