Non Copyrighted Quotes

#1. Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

Mark Helprin

#2. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

Simon Garfield

#3. You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

Ridley Scott

#5. Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business - they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.

Cory Doctorow

#7. If I would use anything from 'The Little Prince,' even some little quote, it's all copyrighted in France. Like Walt Disney in this country, it's a national treasure.

Peter Sis

#8. I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#9. The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

W. L. George

#10. Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

Alfred Jarry

#11. Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

Kirsten Beyer

#12. I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

Bikram Choudhury

#13. I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

Quentin Blake

#14. Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted.

John Green

#15. If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.

Gary Haugen

#16. Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.

Alain De Botton

#17. I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is ... it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

Jeff Bezos

#18. Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.

Ben Marcus

#19. Most people have embarrassing videos of themselves as children. Few have theirs copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox.

Mara Wilson

#20. Emulate but never give up your uniqueness.

Debasish Mridha

#21. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Dustin Moskovitz

#22. If you have ever wanted to serve god, go on and serve him. Don't wait to be authorized by anybody. He is not copyrighted

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#23. Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

Bill Gates

#24. I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.

Anne Rice

#25. The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Joss Whedon

#26. The line of 'Make America great again,' the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody's using it, they are all loving it. I don't know I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

Donald Trump

#27. A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

Jack Valenti