Imitation Quotes - Page 21

• Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Involuntary, Unconscious

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!

  Ed Engle

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.34, Stackpole Books

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• The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.

  Denis Waitley

  Real, Humble, Champion

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• When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!

  Charice Pempengco

  Band, Records, Miley

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Might, Deities

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for living? To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Lying, Facts

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• I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Music, Devices, Detest

  "Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences". Book by Sergei Prokofiev, edited by S. Shlifstein and translated by Rose Prokofieva, 1960.

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• The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

  Luise Rainer

  Half, World, Poor

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• The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

  Libba Bray

  Men, Museums, Glasses

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• Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Years, Age

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• Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

  Immanuel Kant

  Song, Men, Mimicry

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• The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God.

  Johannes Kepler

  Song, Art, Men

  "The Sleepwalkers". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

  Simone Weil

  Beast, Idolatry, Objects

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.164, Psychology Press

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• I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill you." She batted her eyes innocently."But the street merchant gave us a very good deal on those.Walt said they would fit you." Walt raised his hand."Don't blame me,man.I tried to stick up for you." Bes snorted,then did a pretty good imitation of Walt's voice:"At least get the extra-large ones with Pikachu.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

  Simone Weil

  Creation, Apprehension

  Simone Weil, Arthur Wills (1956). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.480, Psychology Press

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

  Margaret Fuller

  Growth, Might, Soil

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.47

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• He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Decision, Apes

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

  Thomas Young

  Nature, Science, Followers

  Thomas Young (1807). “A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes”, p.7

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• When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Numbers, Imagination, Characteristics

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• To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

  Wendell Phillips

  Father, Cracks, Pieces

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

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• These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs of the necessity of some institution that will blend stability with liberty.

  James Madison

  America, Liberty, Example

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.309, Coventry House Publishing

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• Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality

  John Searle

  Animal, Ideas, Achievement

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• We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Nature, Memories

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.176, Diversion Books

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• That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

  Lydia M. Child

  Song, Nature, Men

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 38, 1843.

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