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

Doug Coupland quote: "Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory."

Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.

Doug Coupland

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn? Isak Dinesen
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. Fred Ward
Sue Monk Kidd quote: "If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've..."
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull. Sue Monk Kidd
Thomas Harris quote: "There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet..."
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. Thomas Harris
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie. Leonardo da Vinci
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back. Paul Theroux
Umberto Eco quote: "It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things."
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things. Umberto Eco
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started. David Blaine
Kenny Rogers quote: "You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in..."
You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor. Kenny Rogers
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. Adam Smith
The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00. Chris Isaak
Courtney Love quote: "I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and..."
I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand. Courtney Love
The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later. R. L. Stine
Ronnie Montrose quote: "But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a..."
But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. Ronnie Montrose
Tom Robbins quote: "Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing..."
Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough. Tom Robbins