Copies Quotes

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

The copy price of the future is the copyright.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.

It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

We have a name for things that don't copy themselves: dead.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.

Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I'm Mr. Wilders. I'm not anybody's copy or whatsoever.

Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of the world - the sooner it copies what America is like, the better.

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy.

The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.

Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

Readers know what the copy is going to say.

I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.