Douglas Coupland Quotes

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FunnyNothingCheapBeingCure

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

John Hickenlooper

ArtMoneyWantMoreBuyingConcerts

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.

Roger Wicker

ResearchChoiceStem Cell Research

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, 'Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.'

Roxane Gay

DayNightReadingLateThreeWrite

I have this weird optimism that when things are not good - like, really, genuinely not good - that we shall persevere.

Michaela Watkins

GoodOptimismWeirdThingsPersevere

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Michael Novak

KnowUtopiaOneselfDisbelieve

What I learned on 'Homicide' was that each show deserves its own look.

Clark Johnson

LookOwnShowHomicideLearnedEach

I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.

Ashoke Sen

HopeBestFindingMatterTheoryUs

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Woody Allen

GodLaughYouWantPlansHim

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

HopeRealityBitternessRealDeceit

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

William P. Leahy

WomenMenThinkChurchHelpWant

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.

William Henry Ashley

WeatherMarchFirstMovementDays

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Scott Weiss

LeaderDetailsBetterTopNeedStay

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