Marionette Quotes

#1. She was breathing, but she was lifeless, a marionette whose strings had been cut. Neil

Nora Sakavic

#2. They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Leif Garrett

#3. Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Frank Herbert

#4. The real powers at play never take center stage. Don't follow the marionette, follow the strings.

William Ritter

#5. I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#6. As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.

Carlo Collodi

#7. The microwave clock spills over into midnight, and the marionette girl walks up the stairs to sleep in her puppet bed in the puppet house, filled with not-puppet people. They are made of flesh and blood, and she is made of wood and lies.

Michelle Painchaud

#8. How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

Carlo Collodi

#9. He fell like a marionette with the strings cut. Now!

Michael Grant

#10. I smile because I listen to the OTHER and I believe the OTHER. I am a marionette pulled by the unskilled fingers, pulled apart, inharmoniously dislocated, one arm dead, the other rhapsodising in mid-air. I laugh, not when it fits into my talk, but when it fits into the undercurrents of my talk.

Anais Nin

#11. Oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.

Joe Haldeman

#12. I am not the kind of goddess of victory that people cheer for. I am merely a marionette who is fighting to cut off her own strings. At my feet is a hill covered in skeletons ... I am nothing but an angel of death.

Kaori Yuki

#13. If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

Chuck D

#14. I feel like a marionette -
like someone else is pulling the strings
and I have no choice but to comply.

Samantha Schutz

#15. I was a marionette. He loved pulling the strings.

Ruta Sepetys

#16. I hover over myself
Watching.
Mind and body separated,
Each in control
As though there are two puppeteers
Working the strings of my marionette self.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#17. With the morbid realisation that his sexual being was a dull thing, a lifeless thing, a mass-produced marionette with chipped paint and fraying strings

Will Self

#18. All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#19. Maybe, she thought with some perversity, it wasn't the gods who controlled the universe, but cats. Cats who toyed with humans as a puppeteer would a marionette.

Kristen Britain

#20. I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Bob Balaban

#21. He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

#22. I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

Mick Jagger

#23. The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Tommy Douglas

#24. He couldn't even jerk himself off: there was no one to give him permission to come.

Casey K. Cox

#25. I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

Junot Diaz

#26. Hope is a hollow backbone. It can't always carry the weight of reality. And I was tired of propping it up. I was tired of mending it each time it snapped.

Leylah Attar

#27. You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

Jerry Seinfeld

#28. There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

Anthony Horowitz

#29. Power will always corrupt those who have not learned to serve it properly" -Lurline

Danielle Paige