“Dailyboothers do it in three seconds.”
—Me
April 2010
“Not only do I defy anyone to see how a trick is done, I defy anyone to see a trick.”
—Tommy Cooper
Victoria Wood Comes Clean
- Michael Parkinson: Is [your mother] still alive?
- Victoria Wood: Yeah.
- Michael Parkinson: What does she make of all your success?
- Victoria Wood: I haven't told her.
“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
—Douglas Coupland
“If you can control your emotions, chances are you don’t have too many.”
—Douglas Coupland
“Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?”
—Douglas Coupland
“Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.”
—Douglas Coupland
“I hear that God has a really bad haircut.”
—Douglas Coupland
“At twenty you know you’re not going to be a rock star… by twenty-five you know you’re not going to be a dentist or a professional… by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you’re ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful… by thirty-five, you know, basically, what you’re going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate.”
—Douglas Coupland
“…when you’re in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.”
—Douglas Coupland
“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.”
—Douglas Coupland
“The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.”
—Douglas Coupland