#puppets

As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#could #defeated #just #long #muslims

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#forces #only #our #pulled #puppets

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#animated films #better #compared #feel #films

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#direct #got #hand #house #i

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

And we saved your life, y’know,” Andrew said, jerking his head in Oliver’s direction. “I mean, the least you could do is thank us.” “Of course!” Oliver said hastily. “Thank you very much for saving my life.” “It was really dangerous back there,” Patricia said earnestly, as if wanting to make sure that he understood what kind of situation they had rescued him from. “Yes, beheading is a serious business, I suppose,” Oliver said kindly. “I think it would have been difficult to keep on living once my head was chopped off. ↗

— Zeinab Alayan

#gratefulness #humor #puppets #business

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ↗

— William Laud

#church #churches #down #heads #held

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. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#anything #bad #convince #done #had

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#actresses #puppets #talk-show-host #tv #movies

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. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make