When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery. It's also standing in a world of shadows. Be unique, be creative, you were… — Tammi Post Copy Share Image
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.' — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“He'll never do it again,' she swears, but he will because she'll let him. Now me? I've got no use for imitation… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.… — Jean-Pierre Serre Copy Share Image
Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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