Douglas Coupland Quotes

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YouPenWantSpecialOutTailor

I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

Jill Clayburgh

LoveFitnessBackGoMilesSwim

President Obama and Hillary Clinton most definitely signaled to Islamic State leaders that they had no intention of seriously challenging them, or even of calling radical Islamic terrorism by its name.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

NameIntentionTerrorismSeriously

To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.

Meir Soloveichik

GodPeopleBetterChurchChristian

I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

John Lanchester

WorkMy OwnRadioUpOwnSomething

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

Stephen J. Cannell

BottleMakingTVLot

My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!

Su-chin Pak

WorkChildParentsPeopleMeFree

Through systematic exercising of our thinking faculties, we can train ourselves for exact clairvoyance. Imaginative Knowledge is the first step in supersensible perception, and through it we reach the first element of the supersensible it is possible to reach, namely, the supersensible body that we bear within our earthly body in physical space.

Rudolf Steiner

KnowledgeStepSpacePerceptionBody

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Joyce Meyer

LoveJust BecauseSpiritNeverHim

I find myself to be the least intimidating person ever.

Chris Zylka

MyselfFindPersonLeastEver

Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

Constance Wu

GirlAmericanWhiteWillNeedBox

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Peter Guber

HomeAloneMomentExperienceWorld

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

Shaun Alexander

PowerPeopleMindWantMatterOver

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