Quotes of: Imitated Keyword

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

The Imitation of Christ

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

The Imitation of Christ

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

Marilyn vos Savant

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Charles Kuralt

Christopher Morcom: Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

The Imitation Game

Alan Turing: Advise about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place.

The Imitation Game

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

How Life Imitates the World Series

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

The Imitation of Christ

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.

Marquis de Sade

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

Christopher Lloyd

Final quotes: His machine was never perfected, though it generated a whole field of research into what became known as "Turing Machines". Today we call them "computers".

The Imitation Game

Commander Denniston: This is Stewart Menzies. MI6. Charles Richards: There are only five divisions of military intelligence. There is no MI6. Stewart Menzies: Exactly. That's the spirit.

The Imitation Game

Hugh Alexander: Because there's nothing like a friend's engagement to make a woman want to do something that she'll later regret with the fiancé's better looking chum.

The Imitation Game

If he keeps on imitating everybody the monkey will one day cut his own throat.

South African

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

The Imitation of Christ

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 responsib...

Islam at the Crossroads

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the piece...

Ira Glass

Alan Turing: Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.

The Imitation Game

Alan Turing: When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. [pause] Alan Turing: They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.

The Imitation Game

Alan Turing: [Explaining the Turing Test] "The Imitation Game." Detective Robert Nock: Right, that's... that's what it's about? Alan Turing: Would you like to play? Detective Robert Nock: Play? Alan Turing: It's a game. A test of sorts. For determini...

The Imitation Game