Neil Innes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
-
If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
-
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
-
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
-
The world is no longer against us.
-
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
-
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
-
Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.
-
I've been engaged a couple times.
-
My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.
-
Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
-
I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
-
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
-
Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
-
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
-
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
-
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
-
I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.
-
I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.
-
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.
-
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
-
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
-
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
-
I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
