Able Quote by Eleanor Catton

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

— Pat Conroy

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the…

— Immanuel Kant

I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent,…

— Eleanor Catton

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank…

— Frank Rich

“Once we comprehend the evolutionary function of deception, we stand better equipped to understand why it happens, when it is likely to happen, and…

— Ptera Hunter

“I am not Seamus, who tacks emotions to the outside of his skin and whose words charge from his mouth on horseback. No one…

— Christa Parrish

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just…

— Andre Gide

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an…

— Ross Macdonald

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

— Kalabhavan Mani

“Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have they?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

I have been someone who has always been good at mimicry, acting and making people laugh.

— Sunil Grover