Imitating Quotes

104 quotes by 100 authors

My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin… — Elwyn Brooks White
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating. — Sailor Jerry
When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true… — Zhuangzi
The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so… — Desmond Morris
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means… — Northrop Frye
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things… — Gabourey Sidibe
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella
I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as… — Lucas Till
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing… — Lamorne Morris
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at… — Edgar Wright
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because… — Fernand Leger
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that… — Augusto Roa Bastos
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands… — Ian MacKaye
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original,… — Henry Peach Robinson
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him. — Mary Cassatt
By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West,the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the… — Muhammad Asad
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.'… — Daniele Vare
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle

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