Quotes About Imitations

'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations.

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we're touched by it.

Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.

Ahora sé cómo lucen las estrellas de verdad. Estoy harta de las imitaciones.

I've seen many imitations on 'Gag Concert' and other programs, too, and I've been watching happily.

And one beheld not the same form of countenance, but he uttered in turn the bellowings of calves and howls of dogs, which imitations [of wild beasts] they say the Furies utter. But we flinching, as though about to die, sat mute; and he drawing a sword with his hand, rushing among the calves, lion-like, strikes them on the flank with the steel, driving it into their sides, fancying that he was thus avenging himself on the Fury Goddesses, till that a gory foam was dashed up from the sea.

I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Jordan Peele is famous, in part, for imitations - of rappers and dingbats and the 44th president of the United States. But he would be impossible to imitate. He isn't ribald. He's droll. Sometimes he's not even that. Sometimes he's quiet. Sometimes he's sitting across from you expecting you to hold up your end of a conversation.

The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations.

Good art cannot be defined. There is only great art that creates new ideas and then there are imitations of varying degrees. There is no best way or only way. We learn from the past, in order to understand the present. The past is our foundation, the springboard into the future. Tradition and past ideas are important bases to begin with, but can be traps if misunderstood.

Dare to be original and unique in all you do. For, the world is already saturated with imitations and copycats. Besides that, it is only originality or uniqueness that is ever celebrated by the world. Yes! imitations and copycats have never been celebrated by the world (mark you). -Emeasoba George

Why, an' thou shouldst live a thousand years thou'dst never hear so masterful a cursing. Alack, her art died with her. There be base and weakling imitations left, but no true blasphemy.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

I love doing impersonations of people.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

puzzling that such imitations always pander so exclusively to the eye instead of also copying the damp fat feel of live petal and leaf.