Puppet Quotes Page 2

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

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.

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

The history of the past is a mere puppet-show.

A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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.

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

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

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.

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're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

Our leaders should start talking as leaders.

They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct.

And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

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.

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

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

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 would say Steven Spielberg is family to me.

He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

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

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen;

Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes.

I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

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

He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey.

He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate.

There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

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.

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.

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

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

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