Rick Nielsen Quotes

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

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• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • End
  • Pride

• As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Achieve
  • Europe
  • Universal

• There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Thing
  • Point
  • Pencil

• When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

  

  May Sinclair
  • Fire
  • Genius
  • Flash

• Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Home
  • Advice

• You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Balls
  • Heavy
  • Bowling

• After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Dream
  • Numerology

• A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • God
  • Government
  • Theocracy

• We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

  

  Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
  • Remember
  • Story

• There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Music
  • Categories
  • Bullshit

• In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Success
  • Organization
  • Balanced

• I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I'm a member of BAFTA, so I vote in all the films that come up for the Academy Awards.

  

  Ray Fearon
  • Vote
  • Awards
  • Member

• If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

  

  Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
  • Member
  • Tall