Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“puzzling that such imitations always pander so exclusively to the eye instead of also copying the damp fat feel of live petal… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've seen many imitations on 'Gag Concert' and other programs, too, and I've been watching happily. — Hyuna Copy Share Image
“Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they… — Vaughn Monroe Copy Share Image
I wanted 'Imitations' to be a fully realized record from start to finish, with a cohesive sound and a sequence that took… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When you become old, things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Jordan Peele is famous, in part, for imitations - of rappers and dingbats and the 44th president of the United States. But… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is… — Asrani Copy Share Image
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or… — Bill Medley Copy Share Image
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
