Copy Quotes

612 quotes by 524 authors

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy. — Louis Kronenberger
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are… — Rajneesh
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start… — Rajneesh
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their… — Joan Aiken
Copy and paste is a design error. — David Parnas
It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background. — Pekka Vasala
Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible. — Jerry Lawler
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to… — Elsa Schiaparelli
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your… — Elwyn Brooks White
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. — Roland Barthes
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless… — John Loengard
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute… — C.S. Lewis
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. — Ben Jonson

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