Top 100 Puppet Quotes
#1. The ordinary public is a puppet of worthless news and media.
Santosh Kalwar
#2. so she pulled on all her puppet-strings and ignored how they pulled right back until they nearly ripped right out of her heart to leave it bleeding.
Cole McCade
#3. What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.
Silvina Ocampo
#4. But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.
Brian Henson
#6. You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.
Johnny Galecki
#7. Some people steal your oxygen and leave you winded. Some people cut it off completely and you're left suffocated. But other people, the rare ones, pump oxygen into you, just like a breeze fills a wind puppet and gives it the energy to twist and sway.
Katie Kacvinsky
#8. The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
Charles De Lint
#9. It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.
Friedrich Schiller
#10. So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.
Brian Henson
#11. We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.
John Barrasso
#12. No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams
Paul C. Nagel
#13. Pain? I know pain at the molecular level... It pulls at my atoms... Sings to me in an alphabet of fear... I am the boiling man... come to break the bones of your sins, meat puppet...
James O'Barr
#14. If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that ... that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?
Margaret Atwood
#15. I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
Neil Patrick Harris
#16. Cue the cruel and mocking laughter from the puppet master of this fucked up sideshow.
A. Zavarelli
#17. The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey ... there's one guy holding up both!
Bill Hicks
#18. I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti
Pippa DaCosta
#19. Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America.
Reggie Fils-Aime
#20. I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
Wesley Snipes
#21. And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."
Brian Henson
#22. People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying to maintain the face of God. In the end, you must place your hopes and prayers with the angels. It has become quite sad in Heaven without its puppet master.
Lionel Suggs
#23. I don't think that anyone should be in control of a relationship. I think that if you have a woman that controls her man, he is a puppet, and he is weak.
Mo'Nique
#24. And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
Jimmy Cliff
#25. Hello," Newel said. "Look, Doren, we have visitors. Kendra, Seth, and ... Muriel's weirdo puppet." ... Newel grabbed Seth's hand and shook it vigorously. "Congratulations. You just found yourself a secret entrance."
"So seriously," Doren said. "What's with the puppet?
Brandon Mull
#26. I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
Jodie Foster
#27. I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.
L. Duarte
#28. If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
Bob Balaban
#29. For behold your body -
A painted puppet, a toy,
Jointed, sick and full of false
imaginings,
A shadow that shifts and fade.
Gautama Buddha
#30. The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#31. Moments like that, I thought maybe there was a God, a fickle puppet-master who decided it was time to remind us that life isn't just an echo of the Big Bang - that we're here, with beating hearts.
Vikki Wakefield
#32. When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
Lu Xun
#33. Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.
Frank Oz
#34. I didn't need to be rescued."
"Sorry, but my sword outranks your ... " she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.
Kelley Armstrong
#35. You will always be a puppet on someone else's line if you don't care enough about the big picture to let your tiny voice be heard. When it is combined with the tiny voices of millions of others that is the real power.
Kenneth Eade
#36. Bashar Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.
Marco Rubio
#37. All the great coincidences and marvelous achievements of his life disappeared in a flash. In their place were puppet strings. 'A
Hugh Howey
#38. What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
Barry Lyga
#39. Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.
Nina Conti
#40. First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.
Brian Henson
#41. Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their heads and moved their legs and arms when you pulled the strings.
Emile Zola
#42. 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
#43. From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
Sam Harris
#44. We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.
George Lucas
#45. People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#46. Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#47. I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.
Evan Sutter
#48. Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won't be Queen for long.
Holly Black
#49. The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel.
Ralph Nader
#50. I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.
Joko Widodo
#51. The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
Elinor Smith
#52. You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.
Gillian Jacobs
#53. You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.
David Fury
#54. I've carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it's on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
Guy Davenport
#55. He looked, from behind, like a fleshless stick figure in overlarge black clothing, a caricature poised for stringy movement at the direction of a puppet master. Only
Frank Herbert
#56. My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
Emilyann Girdner
#57. I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
Frans De Waal
#58. Someone is out there," I said. "Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - "
"Mixing metaphors?" Thomas suggested.
Jim Butcher
#59. I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney
#60. No, that's wrong," Rosa said, pointing at Dex who was sliding his fist in and out of the puppet, making moaning noises. "Ooh, yeah, you like that don't you.
Anonymous
#61. Man said, I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!
Henry Van Dyke
#62. I bought a brown-skinned glove puppet. He came with a little black briefcase and his hair was parted exactly down the middle. The precision of his parting made me uneasy; somehow it was too human at the exact same time as exposing his status as a nonhuman.
Helen Oyeyemi
#63. History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
R. Scott Bakker
#64. So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?
Sergio Martinez
#65. In this moment, looking into his eyes while he doing these things to me, I feel overwhelmed, scared it'll all be taken away, but most of all the beginning of what I think is freedom. Free to be me. Free to feel human and not my parents puppet.
N.E. Henderson
#66. The wife drives the ship. She is the puppet master. But in order to maintain a happy home, you must let the man believe that he calls the shots.
S.L. Jennings
#67. My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
Gwen Stefani
#68. You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less ... the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.
Maya Banks
#69. Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start!
Craig Ferguson
#70. I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
Brian Henson
#71. How do you know? Maybe you're just out of the loop, maybe those orthogonal stealthnets are running you the way you think you're running Rakshi. You think everyone on the planet's a puppet except for Colonel Jim Moore?
Peter Watts
#72. As for Fergus. He had a habit which Maud was not experienced enough to recognise as a common one in ex-lovers of giving little tugs at the carefully severed spider-threads or puppet-strings which had once tied her to him.
A.S. Byatt
#73. How can I bribe my tongue to speak as truth the things my heart so contradicts. Attach to me then your strings and pull and I shall dance and be your puppet ... for a time
Tonny K. Brown
#74. One more thing, don't forget the music box. I'll be honest, I never liked that puppet thing... It was always...Thinking...
Scott Cawthon
#75. The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Dennis Rodman
#76. If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.'
'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.
Christopher Pike
#77. I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
Fred Saberhagen
#78. At times like these, she thought, it was probably a good idea to carry a small hand puppet.
Lorrie Moore
#79. If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
Pietro Badoglio
#80. I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.
Ron Paul
#81. In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates ... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#82. Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.
Bill Kaulitz
#83. We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."
Brian Henson
#84. Dex lowered his voice, growling as his fingers moved the puppet's little paws. "Hi, I'm Ash. My hobbies include shooting things, shooting things, and uh, shooting things. Oh and I like fish.
Charlie Cochet
#85. I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss them, I only miss performing them. The actual sweatiness of the fur and foam and fleece? Not so much.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
#86. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race
Frank Sinatra
#87. When I'm gigging, there's an uneasy shift when I pull a puppet out. People look at me aghast and I feel I have about 20 seconds to win them over. You even get the prejudice among other people in your own profession.
Nina Conti
#88. How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much ... I love belonging to you
I glory in it, that you alone have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, and made me yours, so that away from you I am nothing but a useless puppet, an empty husk.
Violet Trefusis
#89. My soul, I've found, has puppet strings
to make me droop or give me wings.
And music is the puppeteer
that turns my ear to hear.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#90. We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?
Mel Gibson
#91. Said Pinocchio's lover, midst sighs,
My puppet's technique takes the prize.
He gives me full measure
Through dishonest pleasure:
I sit on his face and he lies.
Jennifer Kaufman
#92. It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun ... ladies.
Demetri Martin
#94. You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.
Gichin Funakoshi
#95. Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show.
Leigh Bardugo
#96. Jesus Christ, Is That A Puppet? [10w]
The Bible performed entirely by puppets would produce more converts.
Beryl Dov
#97. As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
Fede Alvarez
#98. Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be.
Steven Redhead
#99. Her entire life was obeying orders. She'd left her Father behind, only to fall into the hands of another dictator. Was her life her own anymore, or was she a puppet on a string, dancing to Ryan's tune?
Callie Hunter
#100. Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
Wayne White
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