Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Denis Waitley

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Lana Turner

Well, I'm going up and up and up--and nobody's going to pull me down!

Friedrich Schiller

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Matt Ridley

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Roseanne Barr

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Jeaniene Frost

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Jesse Toprak

I think the moral of the month was that the more gas-efficient models did well.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Kathy Martin

We put things in there that this is the right thing to teach. We as role models need to send that message.

Sophie Monk

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Donella Meadows

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.