Imitation Quotes

411 Imitation quotes by 304 unique authors

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art… — Marcel Proust
What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you… — Diana Wynne Jones
Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says. "No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate… — Clint Eastwood
You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded him that I needed to concentrate. Sometimes dogs forget;… — Kevin Hearne
The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is… — Thomas Paine
I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you." She batted… — Rick Riordan
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on… — Joyce Cary
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left… — Clive Barker
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The three of you are enough to drive a mara mad.'She can wear my shirt," she growled in an imitation of Nash."No,she can wear my… — Rachel Vincent
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. — Jeaniene Frost
It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop.… — Masashi Kishimoto
The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a… — Libba Bray
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison.… — Richard Dawkins
It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators. — Martin Luther
Imitation is flattery — Rick Riordan
every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are tryin… — Rajneesh
Luis is right there.” I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard… — Simone Elkeles
Imitation is always insult--not flattery. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Imitation cannot go above its model. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules… — Gloria Steinem
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. — Israel Zangwill
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. — Mahatma Gandhi

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