Rainn Wilson
Actor
"I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that."
Puppets quotes
Puppets
107 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Maya Banks
Author
"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."
Bill Hicks
Comedian, Writer
"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!"
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"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."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."
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"So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it."
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"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."
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"The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe."
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"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."
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"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..."
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"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!"
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"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside."
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"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."
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"Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension."
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"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."
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"All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first."
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"A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet."
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"I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet."
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"A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still"
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"My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet."
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"If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State."
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"We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us."
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"It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet."
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"I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet."
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"Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies."
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