Top 71 Quotes About Imitated
#2. He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.
Dada Bhagwan
#3. I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
William Shakespeare
#4. Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers say, people think that that's how we're supposed to be; but back then, we kind of looked at the streets, and we made music for that.
Rakim
#5. I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.
Dom DeLuise
#6. I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.
Patti Davis
#7. Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.
Lyall Watson
#10. The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.
Jess Row
#11. Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Andre Malraux
#12. What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
Bernadette Soubirous
#13. always imitated, never duplicated, never new being me could be so complicated
Ashley Antoinette
#14. Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.
John French Sloan
#15. I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.
Simon De Pury
#16. The greater koa finch, an innocuous member of the honeycreeper family, lurked shyly in the canopies of koa trees, but if someone imitated its song it would abandon its cover at once and fly down in a show of welcome.
Bill Bryson
#17. The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
Johann Georg Hamann
#18. As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#19. If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.
Jim Ed Brown
#20. I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
Felix Dennis
#21. A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms.
Thurston Clarke
#22. The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
John Desmond Bernal
#23. The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
Robert Fortune
#25. It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
Sebastian Bach
#26. I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham
#27. In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.
Dion Fortune
#29. Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.
Roger Moore
#30. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
Ambrose Bierce
#31. The scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice; they preach to us in every situation the one Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#32. He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
Georges Pompidou
#33. Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine De Girardin
#34. [In Baptism] [W]e didn't really die. We weren't really buried. We weren't really crucified and raised again. We imitated these symbolically - yet our salvation was a reality!
Scott Hahn
#35. Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.
John Of Damascus
#36. Polanski's 'Chinatown' is a film that I have purposefully and consciously imitated, but 'Vertigo' is one that has got into my bloodstream. Every time I reappraise things that I've done, the influence is there, time and time again.
Allen Coulter
#37. What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.
Julien Green
#38. The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
Cheryl James
#39. If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
Madonna Ciccone
#40. I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason.
Franz Kafka
#41. I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix
#42. He threw her a distasteful look. "Uh ... meaning," he imitated her, "That Caia like totally isn't like a self-absorbed bimbo. She only like totally mashed people into pulp when someone else is in like total danger."
"I don't say like and totally that much, O-K!!
Samantha Young
#43. The house even imitated human houses. Death had created a bedroom for himself, despite the fact that he never slept. If he really picked things up from humans, had he tried insanity? It was very popular, after all.
Terry Pratchett
#44. I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
Evan Parker
#45. I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
Naoto Fukasawa
#46. I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.
Douglas Rushkoff
#48. It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him."
Mulch imitated shock. "Romance outside your species. Now THAT's disgusting. What kind of weirdo would kiss someone when they weren't even part of the same species?
Eoin Colfer
#49. Then the imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature made, nor is his art intended, to please or to affect the rational principle in the soul; but he will prefer the passionate and fitful temper, which is easily imitated? Clearly. And
Plato
#50. Dizzy Gillespie recorded it with Charlie Parker in an
influential 1945 track (incorporating a much imitated intro - perhaps initially
intended as a parody of Rachmaninoff 's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
Ted Gioia
#51. If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them.
That's my girls.
Gail Carriger
#52. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?
Kahlil Gibran
#53. 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
#54. Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
Rick Riordan
#55. Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
Plutarch
#56. We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
Mark Twain
#57. Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.
Horace Walpole
#58. By close inspection ... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.
Joshua Reynolds
#59. Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
#60. For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
Plato
#61. Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated, ...
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#62. Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.
Dennis Hopper
#63. I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa.
Kevin Wilson
#64. They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Jimi Hendrix
#65. Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower.
Georges Braque
#66. No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
William James
#67. My own seal." "Imitated." "My photograph." "Bought." "We were both in the photograph." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#68. Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
William Zinsser
#69. I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
Ray Bradbury
#71. Now, remember, if there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them.
Gail Carriger
