I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image