Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. "

Douglas Coupland

Related Quotes:

" Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. "

Douglas Coupland

" Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. "

Douglas Coupland

" In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. "

Douglas Coupland

" There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream. "

Douglas Coupland

" Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. "

Douglas Coupland

" I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. "

Douglas Coupland

" Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. "

Douglas Coupland

" A ring is a halo on your finger. "

Douglas Coupland

" Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. "

Douglas Coupland

" I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. "

Douglas Coupland

" Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. "

Douglas Coupland

" I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of. "

Douglas Coupland

" Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. "

Douglas Coupland

" I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness. "

Douglas Coupland

" Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows. "

Douglas Coupland

" I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store. "

Douglas Coupland

" I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. "

Douglas Coupland

" The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. "

Douglas Coupland

" My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life. "

Douglas Coupland

" I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. "

Douglas Coupland

" Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. "

Douglas Coupland

" Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. "

Douglas Coupland

" I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. "

Douglas Coupland

" I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.' "

Douglas Coupland

" Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there. "

Douglas Coupland

" If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand clapping. You have a great idea but aren't able to express it - well, how great was the idea? "

Douglas Coupland

" The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. "

Douglas Coupland

" It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you. "

Douglas Coupland

" If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. "

Douglas Coupland

" Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. "

Douglas Coupland