Top 382 Copies Quotes & Sayings

There are more copies than originals among people.

Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

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

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.

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.

Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

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

Obviously, there are those in the industry who don't give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They'll talk about a book that sells maybe 100,000 copies, that happens to be very literary, whereas something like 'Crossfire' will sell 13 million copies in a single language and hardly get any mentions at all.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

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

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

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.

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

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

You know, if a band on a label sold a few hundred thousand copies of their record these days, they wouldn't make any money. But if a band can pump out 10 million copies of a record for free, and 50,000 of those fans come to the band's website to watch pay-per-view videos or buy a t-shirt, that's roughly $10 million in revenue per year.

The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

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

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

'X-Force' #1 sold 5 million copies. By default, the second issue dipped and did 1.3 million copies. But the cover of 'X-Force' #2 is Deadpool. It's not X-Force, It's Deadpool.

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.

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

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

There's a substantial difference between dumping 100 copies of the 'Telegraph' at a Connex South Central station and giving away copies of the 'Business' with the 'Mail on Sunday.' 'This kind of circulation is valuable and enhances the brand. Leaving them anywhere willy-nilly devalues the brand.

I cranked out a book. I didn't expect it to do much, but it's sold 80,000 copies.

This comes from Mike Gonzalez at the Daily Signal: [ Howard] Zinn's history "set the stage for the grievance mongering that passes for history classes today, and is still widely used. It has sold over 2 million copies since it was first published in 1980 and continues to sell over 100,000 copies a year because it is required reading at many of our high schools and colleges. That's a lot of young minds."

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.