Puppeteer Quotes

In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men.
It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain. ~ Toba Beta

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. ~ David Cronenberg

The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel. ~ Ralph Nader

By denying feelings of anger, withdrawing from direct communication, casting themselves in the role of victim, and sabotaging others' success, passive aggressive persons create feelings in others of being on an emotional roller coaster.

...exacting hidden revenge, the passive aggressive individual gets others to act out their hidden anger for them. This ability to control someone else's emotional response makes the passive aggressive person feel powerful. He/she becomes the puppeteer - the master of someone else's universe and the controller of their behavior. ~ Signe Whitson

No. Those memories would not serve him here. Only the fury. That metallic, constant anger that knew neither emotion nor restraint. Emotionless, like the gators he'd grown up hunting, the black tide inside himself would rise to the occasion and like a puppeteer, he would take total control of the wicked things his hands would do. ~ Lauren Gilley

In the involved and complicated business of politics, it is difficult to say who the puppeteer is and who the puppet, particularly when one is often both.... ~ Poile Sengupta

The puppeteer unrolled completely. 'Did I hear you call me cute? ~ Larry Niven

While I am absorbed by fiction, I pull the strings like a puppeteer; I make things happen. It's a passion and a lifelong obsession. ~ Karin Fossum

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. ~ Grant Morrison

Are we running hot or something?" Peabody demanded. "So a person can't take a minute to have a cup of coffee and maybe a small bite to eat, especially when the person got off a full subway stop early to work off the anticipated bite to eat."
"If you're finished whining about it, I'll fill you in."
"A real partner would have brought me a coffee to go so I could drink it while being filled in."
"How many coffee shops did you pass on your endless and arduous hike from the subway?"
"It's not the same," Peabody muttered. "And it's not my fault I'm coffee spoiled. You're the one who brought the real stufff made from real beans into my life. You addicted me." She pointed an accusing finger at Eve. "And now you're withholding the juice."
"Yes, that was my plan all along. And if you ever want real again in this lifetime, suck it up and do my bidding."
Peabody stared. "You're like Master Manipulator. An evil coffee puppeteer."
"Yes, yes, I am. Do you have any interest, Detective, in where we're going, who we're going to see, and why?"
"I'd be more interested if I had coffee. ~ J.D. Robb

He puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets. ~ Brian Henson

Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed. ~ Lee Child

She told Mik, "You have perfect violin-playing muscles."
"And you, with your mighty puppeteer arms. We put the chimaera to shame."
She stopped fanning and fell backward onto the bed. It was a bad bed in a cheap motel, and the flop jarred her teeth. "Ow," she said without conviction.
"Hey. You're turn isn't even half up."
"I know. I just succumbed to ennui."
"Just now."
"Just exactly now. You saw it happen. ~ Laini Taylor

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.) ~ Robert Wright

Do you need a goddamn puppeteer to help you figure out what to do with yourself? Someone to tell you what to say and do?"
"You're being dramatic. I'm not that bad."
"Yeah you are. You need a…" I search for the word, Snap my fingers in the silence. "Hairy godmother."
"A what?"
I'm a fucking genius is what I am. "Hairy godmother. Like a fairy godmother, but a guy."
Honest to God, I just made that shit up, right now, on the spot.
Clever asshole that I am. ~ Sara Ney

The lamplight gleamed on the Magus' white grin. People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists ~ Joe Abercrombie

They could feel the majesty of God, His glory and His almightiness. They could feel that man was just a puppet, moving and talking only because of the puppeteer. Man moved because the puppeteer moved him: man talked because the puppeteer talked. But how many understood this and want to move or talk in accordance with God's wishes and will. ~ Soewito Santoso

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television. ~ Jim Henson

Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that - in many realms, not just sex - we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. ~ Robert Wright

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves. ~ Brad Bird

Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

You think you are in control of your own destiny, and then – Bam – one day you realize you were nothing more than a puppet on someone else's strings. When that happens, your first instinct is to snip the strings and kick the shit out of the puppeteer. ~ Jessica Ingro

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. ~ Julie Taymor

I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality. ~ Kevin Peter Hall

There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are. ~ Alamvusha

You are both puppet and puppeteer of your world. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Cold comradeship do stars provide.
They light the closer, inner side
Of night's vast weight, which, chill and clear,
Pulls on us like some puppeteer.
Its unseen threads to heads and hearts
Attached, it acts us through our parts,
From birth's first cry to bent old age,
Upon our distant, tiny stage. ~ McKenzie Bodkin

What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could manipulate in order to manipulate others. He himself remained invisible, a puppeteer working the strings of his alter-ego from a dark, solitary place behind the curtain ~ Paul Auster

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style. ~ Jim Henson

I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry. ~ Wayne White

"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing. ~ Brian Henson

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up. ~ Caroll Spinney

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn't he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny? ~ Rosie Pugh

Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves. ~ Larry Niven

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor. ~ Brian Henson