Imitate Quotes

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.