Innes Quotes & Sayings

On the run in the African jungle... The only man that can save her, is the greatest risk her heart has ever faced. — Louise Rose-Innes

How should I know?" Jamie said testily. "D'ye think I had anything to do wi' engaging midwives?" Mrs. Martin, the old midwife who had delivered all previous Murray children, had died - like so many others - during the famine in the year following Culloden. Mrs. Innes, the new midwife, was much younger; he hoped she had sufficient experience to know what she was doing. — Diana Gabaldon

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them. — Laura Innes

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian. — Laura Innes

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk. — Laura Innes

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. — Neil Innes

One of my greatest strengths is to admit my weaknesses. — Dick Innes

I trust that you'll find your way, and whether you succeed or not isn't significantly important. What damns a man lies in the choices he makes, not in the cards he's been dealt. — Yvonne Von Innes

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. — Neil Innes

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways. — Neil Innes

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly? — Neil Innes

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. — Neil Innes

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. — Neil Innes

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along. — Neil Innes

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large. — Laura Innes

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything. — Neil Innes

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next. — Laura Innes

The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind once you have left them, how they are imagined before you arrive, or how they are seemingly called out of nothing to illustrate a thought or story like my tree down yonder. These mental spaces map our Innes lives more fully than any "real" map, delineating the borders of here and there that also shape what we see in the present. — Siri Hustvedt

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends. — Laura Innes

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth. — Neil Innes

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do. — Neil Innes

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. — Hammond Innes

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. — Neil Innes

It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her. — Laura Innes

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters. — Laura Innes

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. — Neil Innes

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. — Neil Innes

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. — Neil Innes

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes. — Neil Innes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. — Neil Innes

In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best? — C. D. Innes

Avant garde has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward. — C. D. Innes

You weren't there. — Hammond Innes

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work. — C. D. Innes

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. — Neil Innes

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. — Neil Innes

We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy. — Laura Innes

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

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. — Neil Innes

What credit theorists like Mitchell-Innes were arguing is that even if Henry gave Joshua a gold coin instead of a piece of paper, the situation would be essentially the same. A gold coin is a promise to pay something else of equivalent value to a gold coin. After all, a gold coin is not actually useful in itself. One only accepts it because one assumes other people will. In this sense, the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of one's trust in other human beings. This — David Graeber

Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true ... I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop
one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers
I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding? — Henrietta Rose-Innes

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. — Neil Innes

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos. — Neil Innes

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. — Reginald Innes Pocock

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. — Neil Innes

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. — Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs. — Neil Innes

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. — Neil Innes

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. — Neil Innes

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle. — Laura Innes

I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one. — Henrietta Rose-Innes

Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands? — Michael Innes

But I'm not objective when I'm acting. — Laura Innes

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. — Neil Innes