Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Douglas Coupland
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Douglas Campbell Coupland
Funny
Nothing
Lovable
Cheap
Cute
Total
Turn
Turns
More quotes by Douglas Coupland
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
Douglas Coupland
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
Douglas Coupland
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Douglas Coupland
Shopping is Not Creating.
Douglas Coupland
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Douglas Coupland
You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
Douglas Coupland
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
Douglas Coupland
Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Douglas Coupland
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
Douglas Coupland
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
Douglas Coupland
Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
Douglas Coupland
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Douglas Coupland
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
Douglas Coupland
You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.
Douglas Coupland
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
Douglas Coupland
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.
Douglas Coupland
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
Douglas Coupland
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Douglas Coupland
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Douglas Coupland
