A Quote by Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.

Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

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Imitating Smoker True

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Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
French - Poet
1796 - August 23, 1867

Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.

Norma Kamali

It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.

Peter Corris

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

Ted Nelson

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

There are several things iconic about Sissy Hickey character - even just sounds. Like, "Awww." People love that sound! "Awww." I actually didn't want to do the role, because I didn't think I looked like a smoker - even though I used to be a smoker.

Beth Grant

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Jane Smiley

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

John Cameron Mitchell

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

Poppy Z. Brite

Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.

Rene Girard

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

Ali Smith

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Wendell Pierce

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Francois Rabelais

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 pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.