Douglas Coupland Quotes

In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFutureSpiritualViewYouLook

A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.

Joe Lonsdale

BrokenI AmWorldMissionFixGet

I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.

Jen Kirkman

LoveTryingOpeningActWorkingGet

I like to pace onstage.

John Mulaney

PaceLikeOnstage

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

Tom Felton

Comfort ZoneComfortMoreWildZone

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

Rory McIlroy

LoveHomeGreatMeWinningGolf

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

Robert Winston

WorkHealthPeopleWorldLearnYou

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

Deana Carter

SpaceWarmSoundBlanketBigLike

We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.

Christen Press

WomenWorldOpportunitiesWantMore

Usually, I like stuff kind of fitted, but I'm getting more and more into this comfort, this melding of comfort and style rather than looking like you've tried to shove yourself into some sort of sausage casing.

Chris Pine

StyleYourselfLookingYouComfort

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Colin Farrell

MomentSkyMoonNeverBreathTake

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

Bruce McCulloch

RunClassWayLikeOlympicRunner

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

Alice Sebold

LifePeopleBelieveThinkViolence

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