Athlete Quote by Pat Conroy

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

— Cathy Rigby

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage…

— Pat Conroy

“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody”

— Pablo Picasso

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages…

— Nick Simmons

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

— John Dryden

“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

“Mimicry, they argue, is also one of the means by which we infect each other with our emotions. In other words, if I smile…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

“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