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Quote by Warren Ellis

“Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.”

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Warren Ellis is a British author known for his work in comics, novels, and screenplays. Born on February 16, 1968, he is a prolific writer with a diverse range of interests, including science fiction, fantasy, and crime novels. more

“Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'”

Ifs Want Years Littles Turns Next Hours Genius Tables Shining Spending Get Away Comic Book Trust Me Notebook Keyboards Turn Off

Author:Warren Ellis

“Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.”

Shows Care Wife Advice Offers Show Me

Author:Barbara Bush

“I think the country has had enough Bushes.”

Thinking Country Enough Politics Had Enough

Author:Barbara Bush

“90% of the problem with marijuana is prohibition related, not use related.”

Use Problem Politics Related Marijuana Prohibition

Author:Gary Johnson

“Whuf added the dragon.”

Dragons

Author:Rick Cook

“It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.”

Wells Said Drawing Leonardo

Author:Kenneth Clark

“When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.”

Ifs Men Trying Firsts Doe Inspiration Motivation Suffering Heaven Sides Christ Beats Casts Temptation Flaws Bells Crowns Founders Beaten Hammers Steeples

Author:Richard Cecil

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”

Strong Inspiring Poor Poverty Argument Favors Very Strong Strong Women Jane Being Single Matrimony Propensity Single Women

Author:Jane Austen

“Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.”

Firsts May Care Purpose Principles Clear Consequence Infinite Take Care Reasoning Delusion Wiser

Book:Berkeley

Source: Berkeley

“For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.”

Ideas Hard Seems Happens Notion Glances Compass Shrinks Tedious

Author:David Berman

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