Top 42 Quotes About Machina
#1. The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
Usman W. Chohan
#2. 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
#4. This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for Are you fucking kidding me?
Howard Mittelmark
#6. 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
#7. You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!
James Thurber
#8. 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
#10. Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.
Florence King
#11. Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.
Mike Mehalek
#12. SILICON VALLEY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF LORD MACHINA,
Julie Kagawa
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
Marisha Pessl
#16. Don't tell me you're guarding the pearly gates. You never struck me as the angelic type.
(Meghan to Machina)
Julie Kagawa
#17. I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. A bullet is worth a thousand threats. And I shot two.
Aleks Canard
#23. In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
John Milton
#24. Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.
Paul Davies
#25. 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
#26. In truth, there is no such thing as an "intuitive boundary" of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.
Istvan Aranyosi
#29. This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.
Ronald Rolheiser
#30. To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt
#31. Every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).
G.M. Malliet
#32. You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.
Nelson Mandela
#33. Rothfuss thought about his eccentric friend who wanted nothing of life but to look on, and ... could not have said if this was asking too much or too little.
Hermann Hesse
#34. 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
#35. I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will be to dodge the night watchman. Poets can dodge.
John Collier
#36. Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.
L.J.Smith
#37. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
Percy Sledge
#38. 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
#39. Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.
Alex Garland
#40. I'm about to rupture something, he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
Karen Chance
#42. I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in politics. At least here you're allowed to shoot your enemies.
Brian McClellan
