Muppets Quotes

“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
― Jim Henson

“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”
― Susan Donovan, He Loves Lucy

“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling. May each of yours be that - having each of you as a child of mine has certainly been one of the good things in my life. Know that I've always loved each of you with an eternal, bottomless love. A love that has nothing to do with each other, for I feel my love for each of you is total and all-encompassing. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider

“Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me”
― Jim Henson

“It’s true—there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows.”
― Cheryl Cory, Must've Done Something Good

“His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.”
― Alan Moore, Jerusalem

“What a patsy I must be to let you mock me like this! I didn't know that women were so eager to make fools of us men."
"Uh, I hate to break it to ya, but most of you are actually DIY types.”
― Erik Forrest Jackson, Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera

“Pepé interrupted. "What ees Barrel of Laughs?"
Waldorf cracked, "One thing Fozzie will never be.”
― Erik Forrest Jackson, Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera

“Curiosity killed the cat. Trust me," he said, drawing out each word, "you don't want to find out what it could do to the pig.”
― Erik Forrest Jackson, Muppets Meet the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera

“Indeed, [Jimmy] Dean believed in Rowlf so completely that he would sometimes genuinely break up when Rowlf delivered one-liners, laughing so hard that he was unable to sing. "I treated Rowlf like he was real, but he WAS real to me," Dean said, "and I think that's one of the reasons he made such an impression on everyone.”
― Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

“May your future be bright...even if you're not”
― Pepe the King Prawn, It's Hard Out Here For a Shrimp: Life, Love & Living Large

“Well, there’s no such thing as a happily-ever-after.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means there’s always another story.”
― Josh Winning, The Shadow Glass

“Jack reached down to tease up the material, grimacing at the slimy texture. It was as thin as paper, a single piece of something like white fabric, soaked through with gelatinous fluid, long and curling at the edges. He fought the urge to vomit as he realised what it was.
Skin.
Something had shed its skin.”
― Josh Winning, The Shadow Glass

“Toby cackled. “The PG puppet just F-bombed you.”
― Josh Winning, The Shadow Glass

“Let us begin again,” the female said, her voice tight, as if she were only just controlling her emotions. “I am Zavanna and this is Brol. Are you friend or food?”
― Josh Winning, The Shadow Glass

“He could smell them, the earthy perfume of the kettu mingling with the slimy reek of the skalions, and fresh horror foamed in his stomach as he attempted to process what he was seeing. Skalions. Creatures of nightmare. Merciless. Fearless. Mad. And here. Right here in the attic.”
― Josh Winning, The Shadow Glass

“Jack Corman swore as he seized the window shutter and forced it to stop flapping. It had been striking the frame when he arrived at his father’s house, making a sound like gunshots that echoed across the street, and he was surprised the neighbours hadn’t come out to complain. Then again, Kettu House wasn't just any house. People tended to approach it with caution.”
― Josh Winning, The Shadow Glass