Imitation Quotes
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I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
Gene Ween -
It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
Ahmet Ertegun -
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
Judith Butler -
I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.
El Greco -
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
Peyton Manning -
I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
Elena Ferrante -
God has not called you to be anyone else’s imitation.
Brian Houston
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Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.
Elizabeth Bear -
When I look at the fields, all I can see is how fake they are, how poor an imitation they are of the pictures of Sol-Earth fields. And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is. Because I like a little chaos.
Beth Revis -
I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
Tom Hanks -
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.
Walter W. Powell