Top 281 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

About Douglas Coupland

These are some quotes by Canadian author Douglas Coupland Author, who was born on December 30, 1961.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

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.'

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

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Douglas Coupland

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Douglas Coupland

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Douglas Coupland

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Douglas Coupland

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

Douglas Coupland

I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.

Douglas Coupland

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Douglas Coupland

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Douglas Coupland

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