Ex Machina Quotes

#1. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.

David Dickinson

#2. The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

Usman W. Chohan

#3. But think about it -what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If you felt stuck or trapped, some god would swing down from up there and solve all your problems. What could be easier than that?

Haruki Murakami

#4. At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.

Jerzy Kukuczka

#5. Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

Alex Garland

#6. I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Jack Paar

#7. It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.

Brian K. Vaughan

#8. The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love ...

Alex Garland

#9. Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents" ... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina" ... in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.

Thomas McCormack

#10. I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#11. Don't tell me you're guarding the pearly gates. You never struck me as the angelic type.
(Meghan to Machina)

Julie Kagawa

#12. A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Marisha Pessl

#13. I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

Brian K. Vaughan

#14. Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. SILICON VALLEY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF LORD MACHINA,

Julie Kagawa

#16. Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives ... Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

Robert McKee

#17. Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Mike Mehalek

#18. Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

Florence King

#19. Dewan ex machina

Gail Carriger

#20. Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Edwin Meese

#21. Let us end this farce, observer! Give me your final, most beloved act of "will"... The one you most wish to believe was your own idea!
"My own... will... I... I believe that this love for Yukiteru-kun... is real!

Sakae Esuno

#22. There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#23. We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.

Lee Strobel

#24. A bullet is worth a thousand threats. And I shot two.

Aleks Canard

#25. The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

Molly Shannon

#26. I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.

Chris Dee

#27. You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!

James Thurber

#28. My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.

Drake Bell

#29. Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

Kate Atkinson

#30. The stars beckoned. And she had to go.

Aleks Canard

#31. It was a deus-ex-machina world!

John Irving

#32. This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for Are you fucking kidding me?

Howard Mittelmark

#33. Though she were another person, a deus ex machina

Danielle Steel