Thinking Quotes by Douglas Coupland

I think there is a Paris inside us all.

— Douglas Coupland

I think the killers get far too much attention.

— Douglas Coupland

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

— Douglas Coupland

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

— Douglas Coupland

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

— Douglas Coupland

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

— Douglas Coupland

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to…

— Douglas Coupland

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

— Douglas Coupland

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three…

— Douglas Coupland

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.

— Douglas Coupland

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

— Douglas Coupland

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive…

— Douglas Coupland

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed…

— Douglas Coupland

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,…

— Douglas Coupland

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the…

— Douglas Coupland

I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,…

— Douglas Coupland

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think…

— Douglas Coupland

And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years.…

— Douglas Coupland

I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd…

— Douglas Coupland

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you…

— Douglas Coupland

I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I…

— Douglas Coupland

This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I…

— Douglas Coupland

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the…

— Douglas Coupland

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a…

— Douglas Coupland

I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite…

— Douglas Coupland

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't…

— Douglas Coupland

And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost…

— Douglas Coupland

I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high…

— Douglas Coupland

Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in…

— 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

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

— Douglas Coupland

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

— Douglas Coupland

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost…

— Douglas Coupland

Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here…

— Douglas Coupland

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the…

— Douglas Coupland

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's…

— Douglas Coupland

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is…

— Douglas Coupland

Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you.…

— Douglas Coupland

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard…

— Douglas Coupland

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get…

— Douglas Coupland