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Warren Ellis Quotes
Best Quotes by Warren Ellis (Top 10)
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By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
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Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
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Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
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Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.
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Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.
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The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.
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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
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More Warren Ellis Quotes
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Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
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What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
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Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.
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You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.
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If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
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Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.
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He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.
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What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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