Imitating Quotes

Imitating Quote of the day

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war.

Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Now life is imitating art.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

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 what the people around him are writing.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.