Copy Quotes

612 quotes by 498 authors

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country. — Edith Wharton
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up. — Wally Wood
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began… — Whitley Strieber
Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility. — J C Ryle
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. — Paul Cezanne
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a… — Umberto Eco
I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to… — Peter Senge
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. — Donald Davis
Jesus Christ doesnâ€™t just give us truths; heÂ isÂ the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words… — Timothy Keller
Good designers copy; great designers steal. — Pablo Picasso
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...… — Ludwig Feuerbach
We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether… — Steve Case
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are… — David Ogilvy
On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. — David Ogilvy
Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and… — Ilie Nastase
There are players that try to imitate others, but at free-kick time it is a personal thing. Every person has their own technique and routine… — Neymar
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down… — Charles Stross
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It… — Lawrence Lessig

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