Emulates Famous Quotes & Sayings

Music, like the visual arts, is rooted in our experience of the natural world," said Schwartz. "It emulates our sound environment in the way that visual arts emulate the visual environment." In music we hear the echo of our basic sound making instrument-the vocal tract. This explanation for human music is simpler still than Pythagoras's mathematical equations: we like the sounds that are familiar to us-specifically, we like sounds that remind us of us. — Christine Kenneally

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content. — Carrie Brownstein

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. — William Wordsworth

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. — Franz Grillparzer

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. — David Mamet

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — Henry David Thoreau

We may not use the sword to advance the church's mission anymore, but the sword is no longer the predominant instrument of cultural power and influence. Today the church emulates the methods of corporations and business, and many of us never pause to ask whether such tactics are consistent with the ways of Christ. — Skye Jethani