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Quotes About Mimic

When someone did a route, I was always able to emulate exactly how they did it.
~ Amari Cooper
Here are the skies, the planets seven, And all the starry train: Content you with the mimic heaven, And on the earth remain. (Additional Poems, V)
~ A.E. Housman
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
~ Plato
Sounds are something that I always emulate - I'll walk around, and if a coffee pot goes off or a phone rings, I'll often mimic the sound. To me, everything's got a voice.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.
~ Mike Epps
Thus we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it; and because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old, society is under a spell, every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence that depression of spirits, that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.
~ Sir Mix-a-Lot
Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.
~ Walter Mikac
Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs.
~ David Holmgren
What a shame the lilac flower jealously guards its aroma, refusing to share its magic. Relying on alchemy, a perfumer recalls its impression with a blend. Together, the essences of jasmine, ylang-ylang, neroli, and vanilla plot to mimic the fair lilac flower. —
~ Jan Moran
Photographer Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect given that the posing of Ms. Short's body appeared to mimic the Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs.
~ David McGowan
pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
A parrot," he said, "is a tropical zygodactyl bird (order psittaciformes) that has a stout curved hooked bill, is often crested, brightly variegated, and an excellent mimic. In other words, Harold, a parrot is a little bird with a big mouth.
~ Deborah Howe
Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.
~ Kamaru Usman
Objects mimic in material dimension what we require in a psychological one
~ Alain de Botton
Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as "a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly. … So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can point out in scientific or objective terms why, or how, he is not real.
~ Erik Larson
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
~ Angela Carter
I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
There's a long history of artificial intelligence programs that try to mimic what the brain is doing, but they've all fallen short.
~ Paul Allen
I'm more of a mimic. My accent tends to drift to where ever I am.
~ Ricky Whittle
So it was that their mimic love, their love born of the memory of others, their post-love that came after, became true, authentic, a thing in and of itself, in which she almost stopped thinking about the dead
~ Salman Rushdie
because I am the king of this world. That's right, Costello.' He stood once again, 'I was once the master and lord supreme of this dominion. These people are my people. The lonely virgins living in their moms' basement who never read a conspiracy theory they didn't believe, and who never saw a corpse within 25 miles of the Beltway that died of natural causes - they are,' and here McNamara raised his arms aloft, in the manner of a TV Evangelist, to mimic a Southern preachers accent, 'my people.
~ Sam Bourne
To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Well, I think for everybody, Michael Jordan was the idol. He's one of my favorite players, but I had a few different guys I liked to watch, like Gary Payton and Isiah Thomas. Isiah was a guy I really loved to mimic my game after. There were a bunch of old-school guys I loved to watch.
~ Mike Conley Jr.