English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Doug Coupland Quotes

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Doug Coupland

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

William Shakespeare quote: "All things are ready if our minds be so."
All things are ready if our minds be so. William Shakespeare
One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me. Lynn Fontanne
Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever. Will you marry me?” There were many things I wanted to say, some of them not nice at all, and others more disgustingly gooey and romantic than he probably dreamed I was capable of. Rather than embarrass myself with either, I whispered, “Yes.” “Thank you,” he said simply. He took my left hand and kissed each of my... Stephenie Meyer
Gene Wolfe quote: "We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in..."
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last. Gene Wolfe
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States. Lloyd Alexander
Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s. Jean Reno
That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something. Julie Benz
Andre Malraux quote: "An art book is a museum without walls."
An art book is a museum without walls. Andre Malraux
Stephen Lawrence quote: "Santa was a fake."
Santa was a fake. Stephen Lawrence
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. Giacomo Casanova
William Shakespeare quote: "How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise..."
How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection! William Shakespeare
I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off. Paula Poundstone
Richard Lovelace quote: "If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels..."
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. Richard Lovelace
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. Jean Pigozzi
Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. Ivan Pavlov