Cop Quotes - Page 3

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

Helicopters make everything better.

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

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.