Quotes About Mimicry

Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

As if his whole vocationWere endless imitation.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

Termite can imitate almost anything," I say. "Things just sound more like music in his version. Sounds instead of words.

when Divine seeks out the lost Alberto, she tries to portray him on herself and invents his smile with her own mouth. She puckers her muscles in what she thinks is the right way, the way–so she thinks when she feels her mouth twisting–that makes her resemble Alberto, until the day it occurs to her to do it in front of a mirror, and she realizes that her grimaces in no way resemble the smile we have already called starlike.)

Emanating from this giant thorn is an endless, perhaps automatic, need to assimilate and to mimic. Assimilator and assimilated interact through the catalyst of a script of words, which powers the engine of transformation.

It might be inexplicable. It might be beyond the limits of my senses to capture—or my science or my intellect—but I still believed I was in the presence of some kind of living creature, one that practiced mimicry using my own thoughts. For even then, I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage.

Physical pain always mimes death and the infliction of physical pain is always a mock execution.

Every class has pupils who mimic the teachers particularly well and perform for their classmates; a class without such teacher-mimics would have something lifeless about it.

What do you want for them when they're grown? Surround them with people who are that—the kind of adults you want them to be. Children are such mimics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if they see honesty and fair dealing and kindness, they will copy that.

Die perfekte Frau bemüht sich darum, das verhalten von Streichhölzern und Aschenbechern nachzuahmen, indem sie Nützlichkeit mit Schweigen verbindet.

The priesthood holder acts in Christ's stead, doing the things the Lord would do if he were here.

At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.

That's all life is, I guess. Just a bunch of riffs. Look at me: I'm wearing a tie. Why am I wearing a tie? It's because I saw an adult wear a tie and I thought, Oh, that's what people do. We're all just trying to be what an adult is.

I got Rampage's style down so good I am even wearing my dog's chain!

Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.