Quotes About Mimicry

The children imitating the cormorants, Are more wonderful Than the real cormorants

When we see faces, we don't just recognize them; we also make the same face, if only for a moment.

You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren't you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they taught you to recite.

And anyway, as they will say in the distant future, "Replication is the sincerest form of flattery.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Example has more followers than reason.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.

I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Man is an imitative creature.

Men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others...

Everything can be parodied, even parody.

The only good copies are those that point out the ridicule of bad originals.

Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing," Magnus went on blithely, gesturing toward Tessa with the burning tip of his cigar. " Tout le monde sur le balcon , as they say in French," he added, miming a vast terrace jutting out from his chest. "Especially apt, as we are now, in fact, on a balcony.