Cheap Imitation Quotes

#1. It was a delicious feeling, falling in love. I'd had so many luxuries in my life, and I thought I'd had a taste of this before, but I realized now it was merely a cheap imitation of something not meant to be imitated in the first place.

Kiera Cass

#2. It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.

Tom Shales

#3. If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.

E'yen A. Gardner

#4. We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

Oswald Mosley

#5. He couldn't read her these days; it was as though she'd been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped a figure that looked like Alice, but was a cheap imitation of her with half the emotions missing or malfunctioning.

Andrew Barrett

#6. A little chill touched him and he looked down at the bright plastic grass, wondering why it had to be a part of every funeral. It looked like exactly what it was: a cheap imitation of life discreetly masking the heavy brown clods of the final earth.

Stephen King

#7. When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

John Mayer

#8. Anything less than such proactivity is a cheap imitation of the life you were meant to live. It's stalling.

Jeff Goins

#9. Do you feel empty inside? I mean, like, in your skull?

Suzanne Wright

#10. I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

Victoria Jackson

#11. My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.

Warren G

#12. We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Richard J. Daley

#13. Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.

Margaret Mitchell

#14. Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#16. If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

C.S. Lewis

#17. Most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

Elfriede Jelinek

#18. We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

Naomi Wolf

#19. I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Jim Brown

#20. You should not be afraid of a little blood," Gobi said. "Life is full of it.

Joe Schreiber

#21. In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

Ronald Coase