(156 quotes found)
“I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.”
Rudolph Valentino
“Pac-Man didn't occupy its place in commercial culture because consumers wanted to metaphorically imitate an insatiably hungry little yellow ball; they bought because the game was good enough to tap into genuine sources of pleasure”
Chris Green
“I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it”
Charles II
“Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation”
William Shakespeare
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas”
Charles Darwin
“Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process”
Jamie Buckingham
“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we can not resemble”
Samuel Johnson
“No one ever became great by imitation.”
