Copy Quotes - page 4

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you. (Maurice Gibb)
Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. View quote
Ngaio Marsh
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. View quote
Peter Straub
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 through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife. View quote
Rick Riordan
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. View quote
Wilbur Smith
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d'être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases. View quote
Wolfgang Köhler
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. View quote
Gus Van Sant
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. View quote
Dennis Rodman
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy! View quote
Jacqueline Susann
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. (Michael Gruber)
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. View quote
LeVar Burton
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh. View quote
Natalie Wood
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. View quote
Michael Hutchence
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again. View quote
Graham Chapman
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. View quote
Arthur Darvill
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good. View quote
Betty Dodson
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb. View quote
Brian Setzer
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. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. View quote
Charles Kuralt
The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere. (Clyde Tombaugh)
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. View quote
Caroline Corr
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. View quote
Don Novello
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users. View quote
Dan Farmer
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied. View quote
Dan Fouts