Nostradamus Coupland Quotes

#1. My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.

Tess Gerritsen

#2. Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

Henry Morton Stanley

#3. I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#4. You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Douglas Coupland

#5. A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in that country are developed, only if their level of culture is raised and only if an infinite importance is given to the science and to the knowledge!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

Timothy Olyphant

#7. I didn't mean to hurt her

Quinn Loftis

#8. I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.

Ashley Gardner

#9. The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.

Douglas Coupland

#10. If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

David Duchovny

#11. "Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her tail in a dignified circle, lay down again. I remember thinking: "There are times God puts a choice in front of you." I often had such thoughts back then. We took the dog.

Stanley Bing

#12. I was too deeply immersed in my salad to say his full name.

Emma Iadanza

#13. If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Jefferson Han

#14. I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#15. There were no leftover feelings for him, but seeing someone toss Alex around like a Frisbee made me slightly ill. Possibly because in the back of my head, I wanted to be the one doing it.

Jus Accardo

#16. Pain has a way of making us more honest.

Rob Bell

#17. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can do our part to make the world a better place for everyone.

Boss Amanishakhete