Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough,… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator… — Anthony Mary Claret 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
“The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it",… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives,… — Kim Thayil Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
