In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order.… — Plato Copy Share Image
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed… — Rain Copy Share Image
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun,… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. — Aida Overton Walker Copy Share Image
Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.' — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don’t know where your ideas are coming from, you’re probably imitating… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Barak Obama said as much today talking about immigration. (imitating Obama) "I don't care what happens today. It is gonna happen. We… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values,… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
