Eddie Vedder Quotes

I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I just have a hard time displaying things.

And it's hard at the end of the day

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.

Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.

Travel is stressful.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

Day 1 -- Still tired from the move. Day 2 -- Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot.

Why can't I say anything normal?

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.