Copy Quotes

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.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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.

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 safe.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

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.

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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.

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

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

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.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

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

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.