Copies Quotes · Page 9

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that…

— Joe Perry

Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book…

— Bent Larsen

Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

— Billy Graham

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What good would that do?

— Ronnie Shakes

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist…

— Alexander Weinstein

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making…

— Roland Gift

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to…

— Niklas Zennstrom

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness…

— Kenneth Turan

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

— Steve Miller

There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based…

— Cory Doctorow

[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned…

— Godfrey Higgins

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

— John Caples

Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit…

— Robert A. Heinlein

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

— Om Puri

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry…

— Pietro Aretino

I was with Roy Thomas on a panel and he turned to me and said, "You know, your name is on the…

— Mike Royer

I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books…

— William Gurstelle

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We…

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a…

— Donna Tartt

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing…

— Susan Rice

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the…

— James A. Michener

Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two.

— Sergei Bongart

To copy faults is want of sense.

— Charles Churchill

The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and…

— Erin Morgenstern