Marionettes Inc Quotes

#1. You're going to work some puppets for me. Marionettes. That sound too hard?" "Marionettes?

Sara Pennypacker

#2. Marionettes that control their own strings.

Erin Morgenstern

#3. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

Ted Chiang

#4. There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

Amy Poehler

#5. Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

Robert Breault

#6. I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Arne Glimcher

#7. Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#8. How do you know she had sex?" Dallas asks.
"Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification."
"Oh," Dallas says with a straight face. "Well that explains a lot.

Iris Blaire

#9. I want to terrify little kids, too! I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable. I want to torture future generations with the Puppet That Bites.

Laini Taylor

#10. We're all just marionettes, Ashline," Eve said softly. "Dangling, dancing, waiting. You can pretend like you pull your own strings, but in the end your only hope is that you've landed in the hands of someone who knows what the hell they're doing.

Karsten Knight

#11. Do you want to be my seahorse?

E.L. Todd

#12. Black History Month has been extended indefinitely by The Bronzeville Press.

Harold Lee Rush

#13. Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#14. He is a curious avatar. Passion and pain, made manifest. The dreams he had are gone. All that is left is this unflinching need to prove the world false. Does he truly understand his own actions? Or does he merely flail about as marionettes do without skilled hands to guide them?

Grant Smuts

#15. Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Nikola Tesla

#16. I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Anita Brookner

#17. I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.

Stella McCartney

#18. He stared in something like disbelief. He'd seen a man convulse after being struck by a bolt of lighting once.
Watching the marionettes was just that pleasant.

Julie Anne Long

#19. The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into her leg and thought of all the girls she'd known in middle school who'd wanted ponies of their own. She wondered if they were insane.

Cassandra Clare

#20. Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.

Guy De Maupassant

#21. We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

Jane Rosenthal

#22. I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

Laini Taylor

#23. No opinion in the world is as free
as my soul
blows in every window.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546

Petra Hermans