Douglas Coupland Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.”

“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”

“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.”

“Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.”

“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.”

“'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.”

“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”

“If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”

“When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.”