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Quotes About Copy

In every line of copy we write, we're either serving the customer's story or descending into confusion; we're either making music or making noise.
~ Donald Miller
There are many ways you can enlighten your customers, including long-form copy toward the bottom of your website in a lead generator, a live event, an email sequence, or even a video.
~ Donald Miller
But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more than a stale copy, and this was the trouble with Ba's elegant calligraphy, his patient life, it was frozen in time.
~ Madeleine Thien
How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before
~ Madeleine Thien
How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before? What answer would my father give?
~ Madeleine Thien
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
~ Michael Cera
Life is the most difficult Exams. Many people fail because they try to copy others, Not realizing that everyone has a different question paper!
~ Unknown
the original of the copy they have in the Louvre.
~ Marcel Proust
the mean and narrow outlook of the pedant, whom those who are most contemptuous of him in the impartiality of their own minds are only too prone to copy when they are obliged to play a part upon the vulgar stage of life.
~ Marcel Proust
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Copy and paste is a design error.
~ David Parnas
The problem here is a very general one: anytime you copy code with cut and paste, you essentially double your maintenance effort in the future.
~ Unknown
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
~ Eugene Ormandy
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
My apartment was robbed and everything was replaced with exact replicas...I told my roommate and he said 'Do I know you?'
~ Steven Wright
People who confuse social behavior with manners naturally think of it as something that can be donned and doffed, a fashion that can be copied. But social behavior is nerve and bone, not clothes, and is never just a copy, however derivative it may look.
~ Nick Joaquín
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The world wasn't real anymore. Everything in it was a fraudulent copy of what it should have been, and everything that happened in it shouldn't have been happening. For a long time afterward, Ferguson lived under the spell of this illusion, sleepwalking through his days and struggling to fall asleep at night, sick of a world he had stopped believing in, doubting everything that presented itself to his eyes.
~ Paul Auster
Before rehearsals began, Mistinguett enlisted the aid of Earl Leslie, the show's choreographer and her boyfriend, to make practices difficult for the young performer. Traditionally, Mistinguett entered the stage by descending a golden staircase. She did not want Joséphine to copy her, so Earl complained to
~ Unknown
Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for more copy editors.
~ Unknown
OW: I've worked with advertising agencies all my life. In the old days in radio, you worked for them, because they were the boss, not the network. And I have never seen more seedier, about-to-be-fired sad sacks than were responsible for those Paul Masson ads. The agency hated me because I kept trying to improve the copy. HJ: Whoever heard of Paul Masson before you
~ Unknown
When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
~ Deuteronomy 17:18
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
~ Hebrews 8:5