Warren Ellis famous quotes

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
-- Warren Ellis

#Tired #Perfect #Journalism

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Running #Space #Way

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Dream #Bad Ass #Ideas

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Car #Forever #Brain

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Blow #Gun #Bad Ass

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
-- Warren Ellis

#Believe #Responsibility #Thinking

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.
-- Warren Ellis

#Morning #Angel #Scotch

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
-- Warren Ellis

#Sexy #Fun #Drinking

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.
-- Warren Ellis

#Taken #Bad Ass #Rivers

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
-- Warren Ellis

#Years #Want #Lasts

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Sleep #Night #Men

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
-- Warren Ellis

#Suicide #Optimistic #Bad Ass

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Gun #Training #Meals

So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric field, known to non-engineers as "the soul." So I hit him. What would you do?
-- Warren Ellis

#Dog #Eye #Thinking

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Ideas #Long #People

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
-- Warren Ellis

#Thinking #People #Use

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Night #Honor #Predator

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.
-- Warren Ellis

#Character #Writing #Ideas

Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
-- Warren Ellis

#Dog #Eight #Air

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
-- Warren Ellis

#Tattoo #Heart #Forever

good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.
-- Warren Ellis

#Morning #Smoking #Brain

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
-- Warren Ellis

#Writing #Focus #Etc

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!
-- Warren Ellis

#Lying #Legs #Doe

There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.
-- Warren Ellis

#Years #Clothes #Nine

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.
-- Warren Ellis

#Girlfriend #Your Girlfriend

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?
-- Warren Ellis

#Memories #What If

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
-- Warren Ellis

#Fiction #Science Fiction #Contemporary

Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death ***** -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --
-- Warren Ellis

#Fire #Snow #Pissed Off

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.
-- Warren Ellis

#Mean #Two #Matter

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.
-- Warren Ellis

#Magic #World #Cheat

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.
-- Warren Ellis

What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
-- Warren Ellis

#Bad Ass #Joy #Mirth