Copied Quotes

1. "Week after week we were reduced to starting the same letter over again and copying out the same appeals, so that after a certain time words which had at first been torn bleeding from our hearts became void of sense. We copied them down mechanically, trying by means of these dead words to give some idea of our ordeal. And in the end, the conventional call of a telegram seemed to us preferable to this sterile, obstinate monologue and this arid conversation with a blank wall."
Author: Albert Camus

2. "The physician had asked the patient to read aloud a paragraph from the statutes of Trinity College, Dublin. ‘It shall be in the power of the College to examine or not examine every Licentiate, previous to his admission to a fellowship, as they shall think fit.' What the patient actually read was: ‘An the bee-what in the tee-mother of the trothodoodoo, to majoram or that emidrate, eni eni krastei, mestreit to ketra totombreidei, to ra from treido a that kekritest.' Marvellous! Philip said to himself as he copied down the last word. What style! What majestic beauty! The richness and sonority of the opening phrase! ‘An the bee-what in the tee-mother of the trothodoodoo.' He repeated it to himself. ‘I shall print it on the title page of my next novel,' he wrote in his notebook."
Author: Aldous Huxley

3. "I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me."
Author: Alec Issigonis

4. "Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style."
Author: Bill Laswell

5. "I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys."
Author: Bruce Willis

6. "The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere."
Author: Clyde Tombaugh

7. "Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times."
Author: David Markson

8. "After soft kisses, they pressed their hands together palm to palm. The tingling scattered all over Livia's body, warming her. "Do you feel that?" she whispered with a smile. His lips moved in his silent count. Blake wrapped his fingers around her hand. She copied the movement. Their hands together now resembled a heart-not a cartoon rendering of the shape, but a real human heart. He touched her lips with his and murmured, "I've been feeling it since you first smiled at me."
Author: Debra Anastasia

9. "I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination."
Author: Don Novello

10. "But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fine words they said of you: "careful observer," "strong nervous English," "rising philosopher."Oh! I can nearly say it all off by heart, for many a time when I am frabbed by bad debts, or Osborne's bills, or moidered with accounts, I turn the ledger wrong way up, and smoke a pipe over it, while I read those pieces out of the review which speak about you, lad!"
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

11. "I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong."
Author: Eugene Ormandy

12. "I live in my own place. I never copied anybody, not even half. And at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself, I laugh."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

13. "I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."
Author: Harold Nicholas

14. "Faults are soon copied."
Author: Horace

15. "It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied."
Author: Jane Austen

16. "Stephanie: "I have a list of Kenny's friends. I'm going to run through it."Morelli: "Where'd you get this list?" Stephanie: "Privileged information."Morelli: "You broke into his apartment and stole his little black book."Stephanie: "I didn't steal it. I copied it."Morelli: "I don't want to here any of this. You're not carrying concealed, are you?"Stephanie: "Who, me?"Morelli: "Shit, I must be crazy to work with you"
Author: Janet Evanovich

17. "What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshakable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary."
Author: Jay Griffiths

18. "Many historians regard him [Offa] as the most powerful Anglo-Saxon king before Alfred the Great. In the 780s he extended his power over most of Southern England. One of the most remarkable extantfrom King Offa's reign is a gold coin that is kept in the British Museum. On one side, it carries the inscription Offa Rex (Offa the King). But, turn it over and you are in for a surprise, for in badly copied Arabic are the words La Illaha Illa Allah ('There is no god but Allah alone'). This coin is a copy of an Abbasid dinarfrom the reign of Al-Mansur, dating to 773, and was most probably used by Anglo-Saxon traders. It would have been known even in Anglo-Saxon England that Islamic gold dinars were the most important coinage in the world at that time and Offa's coin looked enough like the original that it would have been readily accepted abroad."
Author: Jim Al Khalili

19. "I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand."
Author: Joanna Southcott

20. "The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them."
Author: John Strachan

21. "Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment."
Author: Jon Johansen

22. "Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked passebly like the honest pages of business. He's make it through a three-hundred-page novel every two or three days."
Author: Joshua Ferris

23. "At that moment, he realised that he did not exist to her in the same way that he existed in his own perception. She held a copied version, an interpretation of him, filtered through the matrix of her priorities and desires.Therefore, surely, he only held a copy of her."
Author: K.J. Bishop

24. "There is not an oath, or at least a curse amongst them, which has not been copied over and over again out of Ernulphus a thousand times but, like all other copies, how infinitely short of the force and spirit of the original! It is thought to be no bad oath - and by itself passes very well - "God damn you" - Set it beside Ernulphus's - "God Almighty the Father damn you - God the Son damn you - God the Holy Ghost damn you" - you see 'tis nothing. - There is an orientality in his, we cannot rise up to."
Author: Laurence Sterne

25. "That's not necessarily a bad thing," Caitlyn protested. "I'm sure it keeps you out of trouble.""Thierry told me I was cold. He wasn't the first boy to say that, either."Caitlyn winced. "Ouch."Amalia turned toward Caitlyn. "I wish I could be more like you.""Me? Are you kidding? Why?""You let your emotions show on your face. They're right on the surface, for all to see."Caitlyn grimaced. "I thought I'd learned to control that.""See?" Amalia copied her grimace. "Right on the surface!""Mmph," Caitlyn grunted unhappily."Mmph," Amalia copied.Caitlyn threw up her hands in defeat, then cast a quick warning look at Amalia. "Don't you do it!"Amalia chuckled."
Author: Lisa Cach

26. "Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for its copies. The other half is copied from the man I admire most in all the worlds and time, so my interest is doubly riveted. The artistic combination of the two, shall we say, arrests my attention."
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

27. "Jasper!' said Katie. ‘Your machine was supposed to be making duplicate copies of all of the things that were photocopied during the week!' Yes indeed. And so it did.' He flung open a panel. ‘All ingeniously copied and transcribed onto one convenient wax roll, quite easily carried between the three of us.' He hefted one end of the wax roll; it was as big as a carpet. ‘Come along. It's a mere two hundred and twenty pounds. Try to keep one hand free for making fists. We may have to bash our way out of here."
Author: M.T. Anderson

28. "I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care."
Author: Maripol

29. "Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they're super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from the limitations of distance and space. In practice, though, bits reveal several paradoxes: they're weightless, but they weigh us down; they don't take up any space, but they always seem to pile up; they're created in an instant, but they can last forever; they move quickly, but they can waste our time."
Author: Mark Hurst

30. "Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja."
Author: Masashi Kishimoto

31. "I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!"
Author: Matthew Lesko

32. "I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you."
Author: Maurice Gibb

33. "Be who you are,nobody likes to be copied!"
Author: Morgan Musseau

34. "Clyde had a theory that women had a book, a homemade, photocopied three-ring binder called "Surprising Things to Do in a Relationship," which they passed around to one another, adding pages from time to time, hiding it under the bed. He figured that Desiree could run home tonight and add a new page."
Author: Neal Stephenson

35. "Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied."
Author: Ngaio Marsh

36. "In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling."
Author: Nicholson Baker

37. "Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot."
Author: Nuala O'Faolain

38. "Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled."
Author: Richard Branson

39. "The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part."
Author: Richard Stallman

40. "Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons."
Author: Richard Wright

41. "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."
Author: Robert Henri

42. "As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel."
Author: Sigmar Polke

43. "The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorized new canticles and new litanies, psalms, proverbs, and prophecies, and I sanctified every incident in my life by the recital of these sacred texts. My emotions, my tears, and my hopes were no less sincere on account of that; the words and the cadences, the lines and the verses were not aids to make believe: but they rescued from silent oblivion all those intimate adventures of the spirit that I couldn't speak to anyone about; they created a kind of communion between myself and those twin souls which existed somewhere out of reach; instead of living out my small private existence, I was participating in a great spiritual epic."
Author: Simone De Beauvoir

44. "Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth."
Author: Simone Signoret

45. "The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned."
Author: Steven Pinker

46. "(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked."
Author: Thomas E. Woods Jr.

47. "It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."
Author: Tom Petty

48. "Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of the Roman Empire. They even survived the Dark Ages, when almost no one could read and each book had to be copied by hand. They aren't going to be killed off by the Internet."
Author: Vicki Myron

49. "Truth is the world and falseness is man who lives within his mind world which has copied the world of Truth. Therefore, man must cleanse and discard his mind. He must become "poor in spirit" in order to go to the real world that is heaven."
Author: Woo Myung

50. "...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving a pattern of delicate lace so fine that that even the faintest light would shine through it. The lace stretches out infinitely in every direction, billowing gently in the cosmic breeze. You want desperately to touch it, hold it up to the light, rub it against your cheek. And all we ask is to be able to re-create the pattern, weave it again with numbers, somehow, in our own language; to make the tiniest fragment our own, to bring it back to eart."
Author: Yōko Ogawa

Copied Quotes Pictures