Douglas Coupland Quotes

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

Douglas Coupland

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• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Think
  • Win
  • Fight

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Smile

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Experience
  • Born
  • Saturday

• We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Bond

• We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Know
  • Health

• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Time
  • Same
  • First Time

• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • God

• You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Mercy

• And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted - 'Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Door

• I know you need to go,But before you do I want you to know, that IWish you the best.And I wish you nothing lessThan every thing you've ever dreamed of.And I hope that you find love along the way.But most of all,I wish you'd stay.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Hope
  • Wish

• I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Up

• You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Sorry

• I think I have always been a hard worker in school and in sports and everything. Growing up, my parents encouraged me to do that from day one.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Community
  • Support
  • Enemy

• You have to be very careful with women friends.

  

  Heather Locklear
  • Careful
  • Women Friends

• I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

  

  David Thewlis
  • World
  • Writing
  • Funny

• As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Song

• I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

  

  Douglas Coupland