Puppets Quote by Joe Abercrombie

“Everyone is so enamored with the puppet; they never notice the man pulling the strings.”

— J.B. Lion

“Within, I saw the hanging puppets swinging and the wooden wheel spinning with its hideous spinning dolls and in the center of it all…

— Kate Michael The Devil's Game

“See human beings as though they were in an underground cave-like dwelling with its entrance, a long one, open to the light across the…

— Plato

“His puppets have a nihilistic spirit, if you'd understand what I meant by that. Sometimes his puppets won't perform at all. He just lets…

— Helen Oyeyemi

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.

— Daniel Tosh

“Puppets go to sleep the moment they break free from their strings.”

— Les Coleman

“What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little…

— Wilkie Collins

“The eyes were dark and startling. They held such a wealth of intellect and of twinkling gaiety that his glasses seemed to be worn…

— Ayn Rand

“Magozzi was still smiling, which seemed absolutely inappropriate given the information he was about to deliver, but when had life ever been anything but…

— P.J. Tracy

“It is possible to be a puppet on a string without fully realising it.”

— Steven Redhead

“Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed.”

— Lee Child

“Their flashlight newly activated, they walked him into the cane--never had he heard anything so loud and alien, the susurration, the crackling, the flashes…

— Junot Díaz