Puppets Quotes

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)

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

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.

There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

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!

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

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.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.

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.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

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.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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!

I hate puppets so much. I dream about puppets all night. I see strings on people. The nice thing is we can just take a puppet and put it in front of a wall and blow the shit out of it.

Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

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.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.