Quotes About Mimicry

All art is but imitation of nature.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

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the boot, which was dull black and square-heeled, the motorcycle boot of persons who did not own motorcycles but wore the boots of those who did.

Me imitaba cuando yo estaba molesto -solamente el amor de la vida de uno puede hacer esto- y a mí se me pasaba el enfado

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palentine; he is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight a-cap'ring. He will fence with his own shadow. If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.

At seventeen we imitate everything except ourselves.

Children will copy everything from adults by example.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

What are you babbling on about, woman?" sighed Chloe. She'd picked this phrase up from her father and imitated his weary tone perfectly. They'd made the mistake of laughing the first time she did it, so she'd kept it up, and said it just often enough, and with perfect timing, so that they couldn't help but keep laughing.

We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.

He thinks they may also imitate the sounds of birds that are no longer around. He thinks the sounds of extinct birds are passed down the years from mockingbird to mockingbird... He says when a mockingbird sings, for all we know it's pitching fossils into the air. He says who knows what songs of ancient creatures we may be hearing out there.

If you're mimicking my style - or sound like me in any way - you're just letting people know you love Brat.

You might be able to mimic other styles but what's important is that you are true to who you are. You have to find your own voice.

get busy copying... travelling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means of acquiring a skill.

they may produce a reproduction which differs as little as possible from external reality

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners

Beware of copycats

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The World Is Full of Copycats.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

I can do accents really well.