Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you're playing someone who has lived, there's the risk of imitation, or whether you focus on the essence of who that… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no-one can imagine — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and… — James Gunn 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
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
