The Mimic Men Quotes

#1. Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Camille Henrot

#2. Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Jane Smiley

#3. A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

V.S. Naipaul

#4. Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

Subhash Kak

#5. The world is a far greater place than I ever imagined. And it is yours.

Bryan Charles

#6. A celestial camera recorded my every movement, impartially, without judgement or pity. I was marked; I was of interest; I would survive.

V.S. Naipaul

#7. Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.

Augustus William Hare

#8. Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are ... the process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

Barack Obama

#9. People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

Mardy Grothe

#10. Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.

Michael Connelly

#11. Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

Magdalena Neuner

#13. Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison

#14. How tedious is a guilty conscience!

John Webster

#15. Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.

V.S. Naipaul

#16. Nothing is more disreputable than wasting a reputation where it cannot be flaunted, for fame fades fast in fighting filthy foes.

Andrew Chugg