Mimicry Quotes
Collection of top 13 famous quotes about Mimicry
Mimicry Quotes & Sayings
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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
— Immanuel Kant
Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky! — Elizabeth Bishop
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky! — Elizabeth Bishop
Mimicry reassures the weak, and the envious fool takes the risk as often as the visionary who mocks the error and leave the man alone.
— Paul Theroux
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
— Franz Grillparzer
You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
— Haruki Murakami
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
— Pat Conroy
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
— Pat Conroy
Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry?
Have they? — Catherynne M Valente
Have they? — Catherynne M Valente
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
— Karen Salmansohn
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde