Knockoff Quotes

#1. Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast.

C.M. Rayne

#2. My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

John Hughes

#3. I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Edward Norton

#4. If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

Austin Kleon

#5. A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like a cheap knockoff.

Nina Garcia

#6. Her given name was Lucinda but she'd called herself Juveline since age fifteen, when she'd been caught selling knockoff Burberry totes and a cop at the booking desk misspelled the word "juvenile." Big

Carl Hiaasen

#7. A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#8. Plus, if you're a copycat, you can never keep up. You're always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow. You give birth to something that's already behind the times - just a knockoff, an inferior version of the original. That's no way to live.

Jason Fried

#9. Getting sliced up by a Jimmy Choo knockoff hadn't exactly been my finest moment as Cadogan Sentinel.

Chloe Neill

#10. Why does he see so much risk? "It's a knockoff of the old Sherlock Holmes version of motive, means, and opportunity," he told me.

Anonymous

#11. You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Gertrude Stein

#12. I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

Anna Eshoo

#13. I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

David Duchovny

#14. I gave up hoping ... But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.

Anne Bronte

#15. Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

Anne Mallory

#16. The people who know my work like my work. And that's great.

Seymour Cassel

#17. Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening" ... The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored ... The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

Elizabeth Bowen

#18. It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

Charles Eames

#19. The little girl just could not sleep
Because her thoughts were way too deep
Her mind had gone out for a stroll
And fallen down a rabbit hole.

Anonymous

#20. Okay, whoa. Back the stinking fruit truck up." She stared at me, "did you just say dying?

Kristen Day