Plot Device Quotes

#1. It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#2. I am a book of inspiration and precious design's

Martellis Thurmand

#3. I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.

Joss Whedon

#4. If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?

Barack Obama

#5. You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

William Eggleston

#6. I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? ... Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.

Alan Ayckbourn

#7. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

David Langford

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

Marisha Pessl

#9. How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly.
"A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device.

Bret Easton Ellis

#10. In the dim light he appeared to phosphoresce, in the manner of warm seas on velvety summer nights.

Terry Pratchett

#11. According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes.

Janet Mock

#12. It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.

Michael Trucco

#13. Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter...No Women's Bathroom

Katsuhiro Otomo

#14. Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Zadie Smith

#16. I reached out for something else and found it: the red croquet mallet, just occurring there on the ground like some easy device, some plot element stashed there for the big finale.

Daniel Handler

#17. In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money).
In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#18. A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

Noah Hawley

#19. Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses.

Tom Standage

#20. Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

G. Willow Wilson