Copy Quotes

612 Copy quotes by 498 unique authors

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young… — Oscar Wilde
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. — Yogi Berra
For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. — Chuck Palahniuk
When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people… — Patricia McCormick
I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up… — Lilith Saintcrow
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but… — Milan Kundera
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly… — Desiderius Erasmus
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.… — Mark Twain
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. — Norman Vincent Peale
Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions… — Rick Riordan
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy! — Jacqueline Susann
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake… — Oscar Wilde
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 heartbroken. We still… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that… — Pablo Picasso
I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him. — Rachel Vincent
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing… — Irvin D. Yalom
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that… — Kate Morton
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of… — Elizabeth Berg
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as… — Irvine Welsh
Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa — Richelle Mead
Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy. — Janet Evanovich
Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it… — Cassandra Clare
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will… — Mortimer Adler
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her. — Jacob Bronowski

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498 authors contributed a total of 612 Copy Quotes, led by these top contributors: