KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Douglas Coupland Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

Showing 271-280 of 282 Quotes by Douglas Coupland

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Anecdotes Because Blogging Call Diary Doing Early Early 1990S Faraway Go Had Hard Hard Work Instead Keeping Land Life Longer Now Over Stop Thing Took Tried Well Work I Tried 1990S

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Always Any Appreciate Between Cross Favourite Glass Like London Me More Places Road Sheet Switch Time Zone

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Any Elitist Everywhere Get Go Kick Library Miss Missions More Now Reference Research Section Twice Twice A Week Used Week

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Art College Design Emily Four Loved Vancouver Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Art Art World Because Bought Grows Importance Law Only Sort Stuff World You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Awful Back Come Everyone Food Haircuts Seventies Terrible Want Were

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Back Box Came Culture How Industrial Instructions Like List Make Out Person Photograph Put Said Set Smiling Someone Sort Sure Thing Think Use Way Whole I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Agency Agents Class Day Going How Jobs Just Just Kind Kind Made Magical Middle Middle Class Never Once One Day Other Remember Return Same Travel Us Vanished Well Where Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Almost Any Anyone Author Factual Get Google Highly Instantly Just More More People Most People Person Photos Public Publishers Realm Subjective Things Why Worry You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Away Back Cords Day Documents Electron Fancy First Get Go Going Gone Got Just Laptops Like Little Meanwhile Need Now Old One Day Said Starting Time Which Wires Wither You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30th, 1961

Links

Find Douglas Coupland on Amazon

Related Authors

John Clute
T. Harv Eker
Deborah Ellis
Terry Glavin
Farley Mowat
Michael O'Brien
Andrew Pyper
John Ralston Saul
Ann Voskamp
Eric Walters

Popular Authors

Jiddu Krishnamurti Vince Lombardi George R. R. Martin Maria Montessori Edgar Allan Poe Jean-Paul Sartre Sam Walton Elie Wiesel

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1675 - Edward Teach

1804 - Franklin Pierce

1860 - Hjalmar Branting

1862 - Gilbert Parker

1887 - Boris Karloff

1888 - Harpo Marx

1896 - Klement Gottwald

1916 - Michael Gough

1919 - P. F. Strawson

1920 - Paul Celan

Birthdays on November 23rd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anniversary Death Diet Humor Jealousy Music Smile Space