Top 168 Puppets Quotes & Sayings

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

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.

Everyone loves puppets.

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)

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

Having watched 'X Factor' over the years, they just haven't got it right. The male winners haven't been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.

I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.

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

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

All civilian politicians in Pakistan are puppets of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), military, and the Taliban.

'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.

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

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.

What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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.

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

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.'

We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making fun of the puppets for being puppets, even while we're doing it. And again, that all feeds into the absurdity of this show.

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

Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy of the object, attacking anthropocentric worldviews, etc, and while there were always puppets around, I started working with them to deal with the times I knew I wouldn't be able to collaborate with other humans, to have a team.

The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here.

I hate puppets so much.

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

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

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

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

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

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.

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.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.

Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

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

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that is guiding us through? And where are they guiding us to? If you skip past all of the puppets and the strings, if you stop looking at the puppets themselves, you have to see who's behind the puppets. Who is choosing the puppets and the players? Who's the puppet master? George Soros.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

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