Doug Coupland Quotes

Doug Coupland (124)

Birth:	30th December, 1961
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Artist, Novelist, Satirist, Writer

Related Authors

• Harry Bertoia
• Rosa Bonheur
• Larry Miller
• Marcel Duchamp
• Edward Wadsworth
• Joe Sacco
• John Lennon
• Lev Yilmaz
• Robert Delaunay
• Dr. Seuss

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 19th May

Births

• 1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• 1881 - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
• 1928 - Colin Chapman
• 1933 - Edward de Bono
• 1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson

Deaths

• 1966 - Theodore Francis Green
• 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1935 - T. E. Lawrence
• 1917 - Belva Lockwood
• 1958 - Ronald Charles Colman

• 

  Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that’s sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

  Doug Coupland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Course
• 

  Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

  Doug Coupland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personality

• Men won’t read any email from a woman that’s over 200 words long.

  Doug Coupland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.

  Doug Coupland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pet

• It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

  Doug Coupland

  Topics in Family

  Tags in People

• Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

  Doug Coupland

• Your body isn’t just a body. It’s an ecosystem.

  Doug Coupland

• Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

  Doug Coupland

• You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

  Doug Coupland

• You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

  Doug Coupland

• You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

  Doug Coupland

• You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

  Doug Coupland

• You can’t fake creativity, competence, or s*xual arousal.

  Doug Coupland

• With Google I’m starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

  Doug Coupland

• When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

  Doug Coupland

• When we constantly ask for miracles, we’re unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

  Doug Coupland

• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

  Doug Coupland

• When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

  Doug Coupland

• What if God exists except it turns out he doesn’t really like people very much?

  Doug Coupland

• 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.

  Doug Coupland