Commonplace Quote by Gertrude Stein Download Open image “Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.” — Gertrude Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Corny Imitation Interesting Nature
For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater;… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
