The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.
Berenice Abbott

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
Theodore White

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
Peter Straub

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
Francis Arinze

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
Caroline Corr

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
Bruce Scheneier

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
Afrika Bambaataa

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William James

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
John Mortimer

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
Patricia Schroeder

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
Koichi Tanaka

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
Lauryn Hill

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
Ferdinand Mount

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
Thom Gunn

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France