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Douglas Coupland Quotes

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fun Three Everything Up Destroyed

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

Stephen Hawking

Choose Superman Everything Superhero

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Good Experience Story Just Because

As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I Am Think Person Now Private Person

I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.

Michelle Branch

People More Sound Always Tell Just

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Greatness Mind Doing Turn Much

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Uncomfortable Lose Dignity Person

The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.

Letters Invention Century Most Poems

I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

History Understand Dallas Big Get

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

People World Better Laugh You I Can

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

Strength Down Two Up Pushing Ways

It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.

Myself Me Just Because Want Way

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

Forward Never Songwriting Really

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