Copies Quotes

586 Copies quotes by 494 unique authors

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of… — Andy Rooney
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. — Gus Van Sant
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,… — Jose Saramago
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to… — Brian Setzer
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20… — Wilbur Smith
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while… — Rick Springfield
In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade.… — Matt Taibbi
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. — Alexis de Tocqueville
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number… — Bill Walsh
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. — Rebecca West
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures.… — Betty White
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from… — Robert Winston
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh. — Natalie Wood
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is… — Felix Dennis
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… — Neal Stephenson
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and… — Graham Chapman
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search… — Azar Nafisi
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he… — George Bernard Shaw
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a… — Paulo Coelho
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 only. No left… — Robert A. Heinlein
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor… — Chuck Palahniuk
Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser! — Woody Allen

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