Books Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half…

— Rudyard Kipling

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

— Edward Gibbon

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

— Neil Gaiman

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which…

— David Hume

It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in…

— Bridget Riley

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball…

— Bow Wow

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents…

— Nathan Myhrvold

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with…

— William Congreve

“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.”

— Kevin Kelly

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it…

— Rashida Jones

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit…

— Dante Alighieri

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

— Randy Bachman

every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are…

— Anonymous