Neil Innes Quotes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

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• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

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

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Own

• My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Now
  • Have
  • Behind

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Death
  • President

• Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I got to go back and perform 'God Made Girls' on 'The Voice,' which was awesome. I also got invited to sing on the 'Grand Ole Opry,' which was another unbelievable moment.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Voice
  • Moment

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs.

  

  Prince Philip
  • Up

• There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Memories
  • Treasure

• I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Understand
  • Stars
  • Nothing

• Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Done
  • Song

• I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Myself
  • Marketing
  • Questions

• Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Song