Quotes About Mimicry

The Guardian reported that a beluga whale named Noc had, after seven years in captivity, begun to mimic human speech. Belugas, members of the toothed whale family along with dolphins, have been nicknamed "the canaries of the sea," for their expressive vocals.

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.

Only a single bird is singing. The air is cloning it. We hear through mirrors.

Programming is modelisation of real life.

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do.

Hester had something of a gift for mimicry. She often used it in the courtroom to subtly if not immaturely undermine a prosecutor. Doing her best impression of Rick Chad, she repeated his earlier words verbatim: "This guy should be in prison, no questions asked." "That will be up to a court of law," Hipster Rick Chad said, "but maybe if a man acts like this, if he punches people in the face in broad daylight, he deserves to be canceled and lose his job.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.

Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed.

I'm a huge mimic. That's how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.

Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

The fly lands on the swatter. The movie runs backwards and catches fire in the projector. This species apes us well by talking only about itself

It occurred to her that when people were drunk they always tried to impersonate drunkards, and the drunker they were the more they overacted.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

That's just copying Daffy and her Dancing Daisies.' 'I'm not copying,' said Perfect Peter. 'Are too.' 'Am not.' 'Don't be horrid, Henry,' said Mum. 'Peter, that's a lovely

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews have argued that one of the big problems with developing countries' governments is that they engage in what they term "isomorphic mimicry," that is, copying the outward forms of developed countries' governments, while being unable to reproduce the kinds of outputs, like education and health, that the latter achieve.

Primates are in fact natural conformists. Not only do they imitate, they also like to be imitated.

In a similar study, human adolescents going out with a date were instructed to mimic their date's every move, such as picking up a glass, leaning an elbow on the table, or scratching their head. The date reported liking him or her much better than those whose date acted independently. They don't realize why they feel differently, but evidently on some level we regard imitation as a compliment. It

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.

We know how to chameleon our way through the day