Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Nobody likes being told who or what they are. "

Douglas Coupland

Related Quotes:

" When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it. "

Douglas Coupland

" Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. "

Douglas Coupland

" In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. "

Douglas Coupland

" To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot. "

Douglas Coupland

" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

Douglas Coupland

" I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things. "

Douglas Coupland

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

Douglas Coupland

" Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others. "

Douglas Coupland

" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "

Douglas Coupland

" Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion. "

Douglas Coupland

" Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. "

Douglas Coupland

" We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. "

Douglas Coupland

" If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal. "

Douglas Coupland

" I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right? "

Douglas Coupland

" Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. "

Douglas Coupland

" The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way. "

Douglas Coupland

" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "

Douglas Coupland

" I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. "

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

" Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. "

Douglas Coupland

" If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. "

Douglas Coupland

" Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' "

Douglas Coupland

" Where does personality end and brain damage begin? "

Douglas Coupland

" It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. "

Douglas Coupland

" Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. "

Douglas Coupland

" Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation. "

Douglas Coupland

" I've got 911 on speed dial. "

Douglas Coupland

" If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window. "

Douglas Coupland

" Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. "

Douglas Coupland

" North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. "

Douglas Coupland