Imitating Quotes - Page 3

• You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Should Have, Suits You, Special

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Lying, Expression

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 55, 1948.

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• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Bird, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.

  Steve Vai

  Stuff, Way, Vans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Journey, Thinking

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• They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

  David O. Selznick

  Ideas, Stealing, Shots

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• By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance.

  Muhammad Asad

  Views, West, Degrees

  "Islam at the Crossroads" by Muhammad Asad, Dar Al-Andalus, (p. 70), 1982.

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• The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

  Kenny Loggins

  Thinking, Opposites, Males

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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• When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

  Ian MacKaye

  Children, Voice, Sound

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• I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him.” Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. “And?” "You’re the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.

  Ilona Andrews

  Men, Opposites, Eyebrows

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.137, Penguin

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• We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified Spiritual Superman, or sit around and wait for Fate to come knocking at the door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Believe, Responsibility

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• After two takes you're imitating yourself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Two, Jazz

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• So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone
  And defecating on your microphone.

  Lauryn Hill

  Rap, Als, Microphones

  "Song: 'Ready or Not'". 1996.

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• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

  Florence Nightingale

  Jesus, Prayer, Real

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.114, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Mom, Baby

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• Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.

  Norma Kamali

  Fashion, Jobs, Real

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• If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Suffering

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• Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Education, Teacher, School

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• It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Versions

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Paris, Bird

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• No matter that we could be beheaded for this,” said Esa. “Heads are overrated.” “Yes, they are so unfashionable,” said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. “This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.

  Shannon Hale

  Spring, Style, Matter

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.295, A&C Black

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• Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Sky, Two, Glasses

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• Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cutting, Night, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.16, Penguin

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