Aping Quotes

#1. The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike

#2. Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow's sobriety.

Bauvard

#3. The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It's the karma effect, Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

Stefania Mattana

#4. I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Camille Paglia

#5. I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.

Doc Brown

#6. Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

Andy Summers

#7. When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

George Lois

#8. Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

Willis R. Whitney

#9. Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place ... not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#11. The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

Jomo Kenyatta

#12. Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.

Hal Porter

#13. You have an alarming streak of chivalry for a butler. I'd accuse you of aping your betters, but I have met your houseguests.

Caroline Dunford

#14. Aping urbanity,
Oozing with vanity,
Plump as a manatee,
Faking humanity,
Intellectual inanity,
Journalistic calamity,
Fox Noise insanity,
You're a profanity,
Hannity

John Cleese

#15. Ungit tells me things. I hear of terrible doings in this land, mortals aping the gods and stealing the worship due

C.S. Lewis

#16. I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

J. Tillman

#17. Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.

Paul David Tripp

#18. I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Charles Olson

#19. I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.

Simon Le Bon

#20. When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Oliver Stone

#21. Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

Wallace D. Wattles

#22. You are moving in the opposite direction when your life is about survival only

Sunday Adelaja