Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott Quotes

I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.

Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott AC/DC

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • Science
  • Process

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Everything

• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Death
  • Peace

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Person

• It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Religious

• We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Real
  • Defeated

• TV is the best babysitter.

  

  John Goodman

• If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'

  

  Frank Tipler
  • Live
  • Death
  • Lost

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• I played some shows, but I'm disappointed it didn't do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show - whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Song
  • Disappointed
  • Sold

• Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Great
  • Important
  • Family

• I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song about me ?' So I wrote 'She's got balls'. Then she divorced me.

  

  Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott AC/DC
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Wife