Quotes By Doug Coupland
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
Doug Coupland
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Doug Coupland
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
Doug Coupland
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug Coupland
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug Coupland
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
Doug Coupland
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
Doug Coupland
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Doug Coupland
When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
Doug Coupland
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
Doug Coupland
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
Doug Coupland
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Doug Coupland
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
Doug Coupland