The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I have been someone who has always been good at mimicry, acting and making people laugh. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
Initially my father was not very happy with the mimicry stuff, but when he saw that it was giving me direction he… — Suraj Venjaramood Copy Share Image
A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot. — Kalabhavan Mani Copy Share Image
There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry. — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Once we comprehend the evolutionary function of deception, we stand better equipped to understand why it happens, when it is likely to… — Ptera Hunter Copy Share Image
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“The human mimicry of synthetics and bots was one thing, but looking into a Grilla’s eyes, you couldn’t help but feel like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“She was an attachment trailing along - an impediment - but it seemed to Puttermesser there was another purpose to this clumsy… — Ozick Copy Share Image
Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
“Mimicry, they argue, is also one of the means by which we infect each other with our emotions. In other words, if… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page.… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“I am not Seamus, who tacks emotions to the outside of his skin and whose words charge from his mouth on horseback.… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however,… — Erving Polster Copy Share Image
What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“This little book has been written in the hope that it may appeal to several classes of readers. Not infrequently I have… — Reginald Crundall Punnett Copy Share Image
