Warren Ellis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
-
Think and grow rich.
-
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
-
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
-
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
-
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
-
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
-
I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
-
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
-
What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
-
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
-
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
-
If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
-
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
-
I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
-
I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
-
My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
-
I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
-
My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.
-
I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
-
I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
-
The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.
-
I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.
-
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
