Douglas Coupland Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
-
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
-
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
-
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
-
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
-
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
-
I don't eat any red meat.
-
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
-
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
-
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
-
For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
-
I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
-
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
-
I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
-
There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.
-
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
-
The basic contentions of the argument of this book are implicit in its title and sub-title, namely, that reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.
-
I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
-
I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.
-
If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
