Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
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If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
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I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of instructions on the box, like how to use this thing, I think someone arbitrarily said, 'Make sure the person in the photograph is smiling.' And we went from that one sort of set of industrial instructions to this whole culture of perkiness.
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside onself so that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing employers and friends - most of whom thought things were fine.
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We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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I told Ethan that I speak in an unrestricted manner to animals - things like, aren't you just the cutest little kitty... that kind of thing, which I wouldn't dream of doing to humans. Then I realized I wish I could.
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If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
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When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.
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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
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We have to count. I want to be part of history. I want a Wikipedia page. I want Google hits. I don’t want to be just a living organism that comes and goes and leaves no trace on this planet.
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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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We are at the vanguard of adolescent protraction.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
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Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere - sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.