Imitated Quotes
50 quotes by 49 authors
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
— William James
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are…
— Jack Kerouac
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Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of…
— David George Hogarth
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be…
— Joseph Brodsky
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What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
— Bernadette Soubirous
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But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling…
— Naoto Fukasawa
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All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of…
— Joseph Rusling Meeker
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Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is…
— Georges Braque
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
— Emile de Girardin
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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
— Johann Georg Hamann
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I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.
— Evan Parker
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The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
— Stanley Crouch
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I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone
— Dom DeLuise
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Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can…
— Lyall Watson
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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
— Mark Twain
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Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few…
— John of Damascus
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