Douglas Coupland Quotes

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeHopeTimeMyselfImprovement

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

Joanne Froggatt

MindLookingCameraGlamorousRoles

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

CharacterWordsActionYouLooks

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

GodGovernmentFreeChanceWant

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

Steven Shainberg

HurtWalkingDefeatedCharacters

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

Trisha Yearwood

LifeFamousMy LifeLivingNever

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

MistakesLogicLookSenseMustMake

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Louis Bacon

I AmRedRiverProudLandscapeOpen

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

Josiah Strong

ChangeGreatSocietyEarthEurope

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Joni Mitchell

EyeIndividualPublicPublic Eye

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show.

Chris Cornell

PeopleThinkDownDegreeShowSome

In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

SchoolEgyptPresidentOthersNever

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Chris Roberson

Growing UpKingsWhiteGrowingKind

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