Douglas Coupland Quotes
I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
Quotes to Explore
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
