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.

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

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

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

Douglas Coupland

Technology favors horrible people.

Technology favors horrible people.

Douglas Coupland

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

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

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

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.

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

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Douglas Coupland

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

Douglas Coupland

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

Douglas Coupland

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

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