Copy Quotes - page 5

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.)
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. View quote
Elizabeth David
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong. View quote
Eugene Ormandy
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others. View quote
Gabrielle Reece
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. View quote
Henry Markram
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. View quote
Harold Nicholas
I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style. View quote
Jana Novotna
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. View quote
John Gould
Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. View quote
Jon Lech Johansen
Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! (Jaime Hernandez)
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate. View quote
Kate Greenaway
The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. View quote
Leslie Charteris
I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style. View quote
Liam Aiken
I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. View quote
Ludwig Bemelmans
If you copy then it is not self-expression. View quote
Michael Schenker
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic. View quote
Michael Schenker
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing. View quote
Missy Elliott
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success. View quote
Mohnish Pabrai
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. View quote
Nathalie Sarraute
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy. (Robert Cray)
Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm. View quote
Robert Winston
If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before. View quote
Roger Craig Smith
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. View quote
Theodore White
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. View quote
Venerable Bede