Copy Quotes

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

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.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

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!

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

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.

I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

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.

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me.