Douglas Coupland Quotes

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

Douglas Coupland

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Parents
  • Lessons
  • Expected

• It's about working when nobody's watching.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Working
  • Nobody
  • Watching

• We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • World
  • Believe
  • Compassion

• I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Nothing

• When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you're an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That's not how real relationships work.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • House
  • Bike
  • Rocks

• With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Feel
  • Path
  • Right

• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Drunk

• Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Lost
  • Storm

• It was wildly exciting. It certainly wasn't the highest feeling I've ever had, but it was one of them. In those days, security was not as good as today. Just afterwards, some chap was able to get at me and stab the back of my neck with a cigarette. It wasn't very pleasant.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Good
  • Today
  • Feeling

• They men have corrupted this God's supernatural order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn't so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know 'Cause here I go again... I love you.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • World
  • Silly

• La condenación de un error es otro error.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Die
  • Fearless
  • Tattoo

• Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mean
  • Couple
  • Bows

• Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there's nobody else except you and the audience, and you just perform for them for two hours. Nobody yells, 'Cut!' There are no retakes. That is still the most exciting medium for me, and I love it.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Up
  • Done

• It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Money
  • Question
  • Tomorrow

• Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Life
  • Student
  • Examining

• If you believe in the sinfulness of the world, for instance, then you will search out from normal sense data those facts that confirm your belief. But beyond that, at other levels you also organize your mental world in such a way that attracts to yourself events that - again - will confirm your beliefs.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • World
  • Believe
  • Search

• Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

  

  Douglas Coupland