C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.”
“Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.”
“Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.”
“Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.”
“Cops tend to assess a situation at first glance--people are always up to something. In the desert, they were often involved in some form of dying.”
Source: The Devil's Highway: A True Story
“Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector”
“Cops, the law's the law. You see somebody break it, you've got to be willing to enforce it. And doing that enhances the confrontational aspect of the whole circumstance. The more the confrontational aspect is ratcheted up the more danger is involved. It's gutsy work.”
“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
“Copy and paste is a design error.”
“Copy children in case of doubt.”
Source: Resiliency Manual - for Women: how the “NO”! pushes you to reinvent yourself in 24 hours or less
“Copy everything you see on television, from hair styles to the clothes and don't think too often, just do exactly how you were told, how your parents told you, and you will make your own personality that is you.”
“Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer.”
“Copy is not written. If anyone tells you ‘you write copy’, sneer at them. Copy is not written. Copy is assembled. You do not write copy, you assemble it. You are working with a series of building blocks, you are putting the building blocks together, and then you are putting them in certain structures, you are building a little city of desire for your person to come and live in.”
“Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.”
“Copy these sentences,' he drawled from across the table, handing me a piece of paper.
I looked at them and read perfectly.
'Rhysand is a spectacular person. Rhysand is the centre of my world. Rhysand is the best lover a female can ever dream of.' I set down the paper, wrote out the three sentences, and handed it to him.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Copy your fathers, your ancestors,
See, their words endure in books,
Open, read them, copy their knowledge,
He who is taught becomes skilled.
Don’t be evil, kindness is good..”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.”
“CopyCats are Conformists — both conventional and predictable. They follow traditions and typically do what’s expected of them. Creatives are Contrarians — they’re not rude by default; they just know all traditions were once original; so why not make new ones?”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“CopyCats are Critics — they love enforcing rules, so they keep on doing things the way they’ve always been done. Creatives are Creators — not just consumers. Their original ideas bring wealth to nations!”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“CopyCats are Followers — they’re often playing catch-up, and can find themselves trailing behind, losing out. Creatives are true Leaders — they are trailblazers, the sole source of human progress, which all of society benefits from!”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.”
Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
“Copying Iain Abernathy's cool takedown, or anyone else's technique or combo, does not qualify as applications training.”
Source: Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.”
“Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.”
“Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.”
“Copying Juvven’s gaze over the treetops at the edge of the shooting range, he saw the fields of Flanders before his inner eye. “Yes, the wide horizon…” The memory made the corners of his mouth curl slightly. “…and in the night, you lie there, snuggled into the hay, and there is this huge sky above you.” He stared into the past, ignoring Juvven swivel his head to watch him and continued, “Although you are in the middle of war, death, and destruction, you can positively feel the velvet of the dark vault above you. And in it, like falling coins or lights carried by other beings, twinkle the stars, beckoning you to lift your hand and touch them, to feel happy and safe with them.” He broke off and turned to Juvven, without seeing him, still lost in his memories. “They gave a sense of security and…hope, I think. As if the Earth and the sky cradled me, telling me I was protected by them.”
Source: A Night Sky Full of Stars
“Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.”
“Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.”
“Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion.”
“Copyright is for losers.”
Source: Wall and Piece
“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.”
“Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media.”
“Copyright Promotes Creativity by Proscribing the Right to Copy”
Source: Pirates of Bollywood
“Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.”
“Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.”
“Copyrights do not and cannot trump publicity rights, they are mutually exclusive”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Copyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.”
Source: Free Culture
“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”
“Coquetry is the art of successful deception.”
“Coquetry is the champagne of love.”
“Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.”
“Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.”
Source: Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel
“Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.”
“Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.”
“Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.”
“Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.”
“Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“Cora didn't know a whole lot about wendigo, but there were ways in which they were just like people: they wanted above everything to live through the night
("Stay")”
Source: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four