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Quotes About Copy

I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy.
~ Peter Sunde
'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.
~ Christian Marclay
Hey! I exclaimed, seeing the total. They're charging me retail. Glenn! I complained. They can't do that. I shook it at him. I shouldn't have to pay retail! What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy. I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about? That's it, baby doll, he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.
~ Kim Harrison
Perhaps a copy could also be superior to the original, create a new reality by avoiding old mistakes.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Belshazzar had a letter,— He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.
~ Emily Dickinson
Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns & Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe.
~ Eoin Colfer
Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns and Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe.
~ Eoin Colfer
Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.
~ Lawrence Durrell
We've made the mistake of trying to copy the methodology of "success" rather than the process behind the methodology.
~ Don Cousins
I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
She should have. All woman should see it. It's a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face. My son" – he pointed the razor at me – "go west with this face and grow up with the country.
~ Ernest Hemingway
And there is no realer man than I," Vanniv replied with a nod. "Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.
~ Andrew Rowe
it is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I'm thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.
~ Virat Kohli
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
~ Judith Martin
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
~ Chow Yun-Fat
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
~ Joanna Southcott
In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.
~ Daniel Lyons
I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.
~ Luca Guadagnino
My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
~ Brian Tyree Henry
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
~ Robert Henri
Rockefeller feared that other states might copy this precedent and hold him hostage.
~ Ron Chernow
You step onto the Enterprise's transporter pad. Your information, your pattern, is scanned into a computer. And then you're destroyed, basically melted down. And a second later a copy of you is reconstituted on the planet below.
~ Douglas E. Richards