Copy Quotes

612 Copy quotes by 498 unique authors

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way… — Billie Holiday
I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style. — Michael Hutchence
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. — William James
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in… — Steve Jobs
I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was… — Rashida Jones
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on… — Dean Koontz
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written.… — Charles Kuralt
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. — Christopher Lasch
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. — Jack Ma
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per… — Nathan Myhrvold
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries. — Walter Dean Myers
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in… — Nathan Myhrvold
I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and… — Denis O'Hare
I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to… — Denis O'Hare
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product. — David Ogilvy
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent… — David Ogilvy
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. — Joel Osteen
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are… — Emo Philips
Good artists copy, great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso

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