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Douglas Coupland Quotes

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

Goals Enough You Become Never Big

You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.

Time People Enjoy You Want Test

I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I'm being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training.

Joanne Froggatt

Good Training People Better Week

That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.

Facts Smoke Down Know Important Why

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Culture Inclusion Naive Everything

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

Hope I Am People Me Blessed Learn

My son wasn't gay. No way.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

Yourself People You Earth Know Want

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Power Slavery You Early House Say

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

Wislawa Szymborska

Day Poetry World Night Language

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Life Character Conflict New Life New

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Miserable Out Romanticism Level Mass

One of the biggest costs in the whole scientific publishing world is borne by the academic community, which is the peer review.

Community World Review Academic Peer

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