I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.
Joan Sutherland

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.
Jermaine Dupri

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

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

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.
Julius Wellhausen

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
Susan Griffin

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

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

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.
Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

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

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.
Chuck Zito

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy

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

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

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