Quotes About Mimicry

Our calling is to imitate Jesus in his willingness to suffer rather than to follow the ways of the powers.

She screws up her face in a parody of deep concentration.

To believe in Him is not such a great thing. To become like Him is truly great.

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.

Rynn Cormel had run the world during the Turn, his living charisma somehow crossing the boundaries of death to give his undead existence an uncanny mimicry of life. Every move was a careful study of causality. It was highly unusual for so young an undead vampire to be so good at mimicking having a soul. I figured it was because he was a politician and had had practice way before he died.

A parrot can say anything Albert Einstein could say, as well as mimicking the sounds of phones ringing, doors slamming and sirens wailing. Whatever advantage Einstein had over a parrot, it wasn't vocal.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

He would study any number of topics and had no real preferences, his many eyes enthusiastically moving back and forth as he read the pages at a steady clip. I don't believe he needed light, or eyes, to read, but I know he liked to mimic what he saw me doing. Perhaps he even thought it was polite to seem to need light, to seem to need eyes.

They had their lives, and I had mine. I liked most of all pretending to be a biologist, and pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance

You'd be surprised at how clearly you can hear something in your head and not be able to reproduce it.

What one fool can do, another can.

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.

A really good impressionist, even if they don't look at all like the person they're impersonating, it's a weird thing where they start to look like that person. It's kind of odd.

I was a big fan of Marvin Gaye, and when my parents were at work, I would get in front of the mirror, put my father's clothes on and pretend I was singing Marvin Gaye songs.

Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

I grew up with my friends, wrestling around, imitating guys like Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, Dean Malenko.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.

You must then learn to reproduce, or imitate, the sounds which are different from your own way of speaking, and to do that you must drill. This

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.