Quote

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Douglas Coupland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Facts
Billions
Nothing
Lots
People
Except
Americans
Told
Almost
Quarter
Common
Quarters
Fact
Billion

More quotes by Douglas Coupland

Image
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Douglas Coupland
Image
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more people just Google a person and get on with things.
Douglas Coupland
Image
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Douglas Coupland
Image
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?
Douglas Coupland
Image
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
Douglas Coupland
Image
How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
Douglas Coupland
Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.
Douglas Coupland
Image
There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Douglas Coupland
Image
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Douglas Coupland
Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
Douglas Coupland
Image
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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
Image
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank the money came first, not the simplicity.
Douglas Coupland
Image
As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
Douglas Coupland
Image
A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
Douglas Coupland
Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
Douglas Coupland