You think you are in control of your own destiny, and then…

“My soul, I’ve found, has puppet strings to make me droop or give me wings. And music is the puppeteer that turns my ear…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I was a puppet on the strings to my cravings and desires.”

— Evan Sutter

Superpowers flex their wings, hold the world on puppet strings.

— Offspring

“The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.”

— Sally Odgers

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

— Alan Moore

“More often than not, a C.E.O is merely a puppet whose strings are pulled by a board of directors.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves.”

— Larry Niven

“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the…

— Gillian Flynn

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot…

— Brian Henson

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked…

— David Cronenberg

I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years old to…

— Frank Oz

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the…

— Joe Grant

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

— Tom Lehrer

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in…

— Brian Henson

“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could…

— Paul Auster