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.

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

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Douglas Coupland

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

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

Douglas Coupland

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

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

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.

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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