Douglas Coupland Quotes

'What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?''Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.'

Douglas Coupland

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• I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

  

  Patina Miller
  • City
  • Sister
  • Busy

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Always
  • Priority

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• When I joined Time Inc., one of the things that was important to me was ensuring that our content is where consumers want to read it. The Apple newsstand is an important place where a lot of consumers are. And Apple is really becoming a good partner to publishers. We are confident we can deliver a experience for our readers that 's really good.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Today
  • Want
  • Problem

• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Speak

• I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Life
  • Never
  • Personal

• At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a time, and I'd sign their memorabilia. And then I'd give them a free pint of Ben & Jerry's.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Time
  • Free
  • Black

• I do love cars.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Love
  • Cars

• Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Young

• Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I love being able to change from big films to small films.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Change
  • Being
  • Films

• I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Kind
  • Everyone
  • Opinions

• I've spent my entire adult life involved in the community trying to help people live decent lives, working for a strong and secure state of Israel, and making sure that the most vulnerable in our society receive the care that they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?'

  

  Edward Lear
  • Long
  • Sweet
  • Owl

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • Present
  • Grandmother
  • Birthday

• A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.

  

  Bernard Nathanson
  • Life
  • Pro-abortion
  • Fetology

• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Men
  • Small

• A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Focus

• 'What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?''Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.'

  

  Douglas Coupland