Quotes and Sayings About Puppets
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
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 -
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 -
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country
-- Masashi Kishimoto -
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 -
Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.
-- Michael Buckley -
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 -
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
-- Nina Conti -
I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.
-- Nina Conti -
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.
-- Nina Conti -
The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.
-- Nina Conti -
Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.
-- Patton Oswalt -
I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
-- PJ Harvey -
Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!
-- Rachel Vincent -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
-- Rainn Wilson -
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
-- Robert Browning -
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
-- Sam Harris -
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.
-- Sean Parker -
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)
-- Stanley Milgram -
Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada
-- Thomas Ligotti -
And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.
-- Thomas Ligotti -
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 -
I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
-- Whitney Houston
