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Puppets Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.36, Tuttle Publishing

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

Song: You've Got To Stand For Something, Album: You've Got to Stand for Something, 1991

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

Holly Black (2008). “Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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

"Notes on Music and Opera". Essay by W. H. Auden, published in his book "The Dyer's Hand" (p. 471), 1963.

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

Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.44, Arcade Publishing

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

"Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

YouTube Chanel "Freytrue"/ "Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House", www.youtube.com. January 13, 2013.

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

Charles de Lint (2007). “Spirits in the Wires”, p.73, Macmillan

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

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

"That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.