Imitation Quotes
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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.
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
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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.
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A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.
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God has not called you to be anyone else’s imitation.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.
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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.
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Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
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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.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
