Quotes of: Imitators Keyword

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

S. E. Entsua-Mensah

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

Stendhal

People need to deviate away from the role of imitation, and start filling the role of innovation...

Lionel Suggs

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Delphine de Girardin

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

Taufik Hidayat

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

C.S. Lewis

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.

Inara George

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.

Eric Hoffer

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

George Bernard Shaw

Michael: [imitating Elliot] I found him, he belongs to me!

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Woody: [Imitating Harvey] I'm Harvey and I'm here to give you jip.

This Is England

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Henry Flynt

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Allan Sherman

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Zia Haider Rahman

In that day every trial borne in patience will be pleasing and the voice of iniquity will be stilled; the devout will be glad; the irreligious will mourn; and the mortified body will rejoice far more than if it had been pampered with every pleasure. ...

The Imitation of Christ

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conqu...

The Imitation of Christ

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling e...

The Imitation of Christ

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well a...

The Imitation of Christ

Don’t pray that God would teach you how to love like He loves; pray that He would fill you with Himself and that He would love in and through you. Don’t pray that He would teach you to have joy; pray that the living God full of joy would enter in...

Eric Ludy

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri