People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating…

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

— Mike Colter

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

— Charles Baudelaire

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart…

— Markus Zusak

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

— David O. Selznick

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as…

— Dorothy Day

Whenever we show others the goodness of God, whenever we follow our Teacher by imitating His posture of humble and ready service, our actions…

— Rachel Held Evans

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

— Lauren F. Winner

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

— John F. Kennedy

“I tried imitating him a few times. But I was too self-conscious, like someone trying to feel natural while walking about naked in a…

— André Aciman

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

— Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in…

— George Saunders

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I…

— Toots Thielemans

“Imitating someone is a conscious reminder to your subconscious that you don't exist.”

— Goitsemang Mvula

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

— Sailor Jerry