Douglas Coupland Quotes

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Douglas Coupland

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• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• To be rude to someone is not my nature.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Nature
  • Someone
  • Rude

• I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Think
  • Want
  • Star

• And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Star
  • Games
  • Two

• The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.

  

  Halsey
  • You
  • Environment
  • Someone

• You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Want
  • Health
  • Find

• I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• Macho does not prove mucho.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Funny
  • Prove
  • Macho

• A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Rude

• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar,'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Sea
  • Angry
  • Ocean

• 'We are going so slow,' Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. 'I think I just saw a tricycle pass us.''Rude.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Rude

• The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Rude

• The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Truth
  • War
  • Law

• I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • Earth

• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Nature
  • Rude

• I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

  

  Benjamin Cohen
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Free
  • Eyes
  • Rude

• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Rude

• 'Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude, are you an Indian?' And he was cool. 'Yes. Yes, I'm an Indian.' Still didn't believe him. I had to test him to be sure. This is fucked up, but I had a gum wrapper in my pocket, so I balled that shit up and I threw it on the floor. And a single tear came out of his eye. I said 'oh, shit!' I had so many questions.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Single

• [Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.

  

  John Polson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Love
  • Understanding
  • Self

• We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Rude