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Quotes About Copy

If a duplicate is identical, not only in structure,
~ Douglas E. Richards
I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Two libriomancers had been disciplined for trying to get an early copy of the last Harry Potter book.
~ Jim C. Hines
It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
~ David Johansen
Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Everything we do, in art and life, is the imperfect copy of what we intended.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
Lauren nodded. 'I copied all the data, but I don't think you're going to find anything useful, unless you get a sudden urge to play Jimmy Bear Learns His ABCs.
~ Robert Muchamore
the archetype of all covenant life is found in the trinitarian being of God, and what is seen among men is but a faint copy (ectype) of this.
~ Louis Berkhof
the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It was easier to try for your sakes than my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
~ Pablo Picasso
Citation : Action de répéter de façon erronée les mots d'un autre.
~ Ambrose Bierce
My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.
~ E.M. Forster
There's no particular formula for 'Lost.' I mean, I think there were a few attempts to follow it and copy it, but it's a one-off, you know?
~ Terry O'Quinn
A really fun fan moment was when a fan gave me a copy of 'Legend' that he had turned into a functional clock!
~ Marie Lu
Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts
~ Frances Mayes
All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats.
~ Frank Herbert
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.
~ Jason Mraz
But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
Life imitates art -- but badly.
~ Edward Abbey
Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.
~ Ray Davies
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
~ Stephen King