Aristotle Imitation Quotes

#1. They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.

Nalo Hopkinson

#2. As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

Woody Allen

#3. Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

Aristotle.

#4. Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.

Aristotle.

#5. For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

Octavio Paz

#6. Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.

Aristotle.

#7. To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

Hyrum W. Smith

#8. No matter how long we wait, God's promise shall be fulfilled.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself ... with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

Aristotle.

#10. Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.

Aristotle.

#11. It's the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His

Steve Almond

#12. Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Aristotle.

#14. Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Thomas Young

#15. Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.

Frederick Lenz

#16. According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

Jay Leno

#17. Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

Anne Rice

#18. The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door.

Amor Towles

#19. Never did an eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

Karen Amanda Hooper