Ennis Quotes

#1. To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Ang Lee

#2. When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

Niall Williams

#3. Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.

Andy Murray

#4. Who's the informant, Ennis?" He wiggled a battery cable. "Not sure. They're protecting his identity like the Pope protects perverts. Why?

Eden Connor

#5. Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing began, nothing resolved.

Annie Proulx

#6. Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.

Annie Proulx

#7. Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

James Marsden

#8. You got no fuckin idea how bad it gets. I'm not you. I can't make it on a couple a high-altitude fucks once or twice a year. You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.

Annie Proulx

#9. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see nor feel that it was Jack he held.

Annie Proulx

#10. I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

Adam McKay

#11. She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood
on his hands.

Saul Williams

#12. Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

Jessica Ennis

#13. To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

Jessica Ennis

#14. I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

Jessica Ennis

#15. An' you turn your back on your friend, you may as well go ahead an' join the asshole squad, 'cause you just became one more reason why the damn world's gone to hell.

Garth Ennis

#16. Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling.

Garth Ennis

#17. Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.

Garth Ennis

#18. I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

Jessica Ennis

#19. Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

Garth Ennis

#20. I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Jessica Ennis

#21. I do watch what I eat but I've got a real sweet tooth.

Jessica Ennis

#22. There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster ... well, it would not look good.

Jessica Ennis

#23. There'd be no point trynna blackmail a bloke everyone already knows is a cunt, would there?

Garth Ennis

#24. I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

Garth Ennis

#25. Men are only so much use. Men are boys.

Garth Ennis

#26. I can melt steel, fucker, I'll microwave your guts and punch them our your asshole.

Garth Ennis

#27. Our Heavenly Father - you established the criteria for hospitality in your Holy Word and then provided the strength to apply it to daily living. Eternity will not be long enough for us to express our love and gratitude to you!

Pat Ennis

#28. After all, you can't really blame the Waffen S.S. for doing what comes naturally. But a funny thing happened on the way to the moral high ground.

Garth Ennis

#29. Dude, are you like English or something--?

Yeah, That's right, dude. I'm like English.

Garth Ennis

#30. The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Garth Ennis

#31. Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.

Garth Ennis

#32. Preacher: "This is the word of God!"
Constantine: "The edited word of God

Garth Ennis

#33. Fuck, that's good. That's habit-formin'.

Garth Ennis

#34. I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

Garth Ennis

#35. Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!

Garth Ennis

#36. When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin, things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.

Garth Ennis

#37. One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things when you're a young athlete trying to do well.

Jessica Ennis

#38. I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet.

Jessica Ennis

#39. Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.

Garth Ennis

#40. ...so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.

Garth Ennis

#41. What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart ... and your father casts you out ... and you fall.

Garth Ennis

#42. I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Jessica Ennis

#43. I just love thinking about what makes people tick

Jessica Ennis

#44. As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Garth Ennis

#45. Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe.

Choked on cum...

Garth Ennis

#46. Christ, I think I'd grow old if I lost you.

Garth Ennis

#47. Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker!

Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a lot of dick on the goddamn menu! Now grunt twice for yes! You through bitchin'?

Garth Ennis

#48. Fuck with the bull, you get the horns.

Garth Ennis

#49. ..."ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

Garth Ennis

#50. My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.

Jessica Ennis

#51. I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!

Garth Ennis

#52. As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.

Garth Ennis

#53. It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

Jessica Ennis

#54. Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

Garth Ennis

#55. Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.

Jessica Ennis

#56. All right, funny man. Some of the shite I've seen in the last couple o' years makes AIDS monkeys sound downright sensible.

Garth Ennis

#57. I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.

Garth Ennis

#58. It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!

Jessica Ennis

#59. I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

Garth Ennis

#60. I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

Jessica Ennis

#61. I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'.

Garth Ennis

#62. I'm the perfect girl. You read about me in Maxim or whatever. I tell dirty jokes like I'm one of the guys, and I'm sitting there in my panties and bra so you can see I'm a piece of ass in the bargain. Except I'm real, so I come with all kinds of complications.

Garth Ennis

#63. You know you can be a real bitch sometimes."

"I can be a perfect cunt.

Garth Ennis

#64. They're looking for guys like us, he says, young and hungry, not done yet. I say I'm not hungry, Rick, all I am is angry. He says that'll do just fine.

Garth Ennis

#65. We've the whole wide world out there waiting for us, and we've forever to make the most've it. And that's the thing: enjoyin' life. Not livin' death, or anything stupid like that.

What've we got to fear except the sun?

Garth Ennis

#66. Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.

Garth Ennis

#67. On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

Jessica Ennis

#68. Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?'

'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.

Garth Ennis

#69. I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.

Jessica Ennis

#70. To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set. I'm a box-set junkie! I absolutely love 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Jessica Ennis

#71. Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.

Garth Ennis

#72. It doesn't matter who you are,or how good you got things. Sooner or later,shit goes wrong for everybody. Sooner or later,there comes a time when all you want to do is shout Fuck you to the world.

Garth Ennis

#73. An interesting man. He was a last minute replacement as Bush's running mate, when the original candidate managed to say "Thy Kingdom Cunt" at a prayer breakfast.

Garth Ennis

#74. The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will tell us that their evils are only necessities of the times. But they will linger in the house of the Devil, savor his vintage, and acquire a taste for it.

Michael Ennis

#75. I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete.

Jessica Ennis

#76. With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

Garth Ennis

#77. Sheriff Root: "Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers"
Deputy: "How you reckon that, Sheriff Root?"
Sheriff Root: "Kinda thing they do"
Deputy: "What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that?"
Sheriff Root: "MARTIAN niggers

Garth Ennis

#78. You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

Garth Ennis

#79. It's the time to run away an' hide under the bed, an' hope the world's still in one piece when you come out again.

Garth Ennis

#80. Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

Garth Ennis

#81. Well if I ever stick a cape on an' start usin' ordinary human bein's to wipe me arse with, you'll know you were right to worry, won't you?

Garth Ennis

#82. I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.

Garth Ennis

#83. You gotta be one of the good guys, 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

Garth Ennis

#84. I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

Garth Ennis

#85. You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got..."

"Well then you've got nothin.

Garth Ennis

#86. I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.

Jessica Ennis

#87. There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Garth Ennis

#88. The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

Garth Ennis

#89. That's what you get when a bunch of fucks in tights try to save the goddamn day.

Garth Ennis

#90. I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Garth Ennis

#91. Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Garth Ennis

#92. You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

Garth Ennis

#93. Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?

Garth Ennis

#94. It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

Garth Ennis

#95. I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love.

Garth Ennis

#96. I have since been awarded the freedom of the City. I am going to have to find out what that entitles me to, but I believe I might be able to drive sheep through the city centre.

Jessica Ennis

#97. People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Jessica Ennis

#98. We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

Jessica Ennis

#99. Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.

Garth Ennis

#100. If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

Garth Ennis