Quotes About Mimicry

Everything seems an echo of something else.

Copying or emulating heroes is true power learning.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Les jumeaux nous apprirent les attitudes des grandes personnes en train de fumer: la tête devait être un peu en biais, l'oeil droit à moitié fermé, la cigarette entre l'index et le majeur, le bout du filtre à peine calé enre les lèvres. Il fallait prendre son temps entre deux bouffées, faire semblant de discuter à grands gestes avec les autres.

Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

In sympathetic magic one imitated a thing and so got into touch with it.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

Now, anybody who's seen me sing or even tell a joke knows I have the facial expressions of Jim Carrey.

Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.

You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot.

Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing... you're just inspired by it; you're not trying to say, 'Look, I can do that.' No one can do what he did.

If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan.

Still here, Faulkner? Luke sneered. Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy? I asked.

short order, Grant had established his independence and taken full responsibility for the war's course. At the same time, he established a warm, cordial relationship with Lincoln, whose "affable and gracious manners" and humorous powers of mimicry pleased him.

He who can copy can do.