Douglas Coon Traps Quotes

Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines. ~ Douglas Coupland

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers. ~ Douglas Booth

It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their leg. ~ Douglas Coupland

I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago. ~ Benny Goodman

It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the presidency, a decision that had sent shock waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy. Zaphod Beeblebrox? President? Not the Zaphod Beeblebrox? Not the President? Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas. Zaphod ~ Douglas Adams

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. ~ Illeana Douglas

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. ~ Michael Douglas

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week. ~ Douglas Coupland

The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us. ~ Douglas Wilson

I don't remember where I was before I was born, why should I be worried about where I go after I die? ~ Douglas Coupland

Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe such as, for instance, the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere. ~ Douglas Adams

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is ... 42! ~ Douglas Adams

That's what counted. It was more than a security system: it was a state of mind. Although Herkmoor had suffered many escape attempts, some extraordinarily clever, none had succeeded - and every guard at Herkmoor, every employee, was acutely aware of that fact ~ Douglas Preston

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution. ~ William O. Douglas

You might have started out with a clever plan in mind, but you fell in love with her somewhere along the way, didn't you?"
Iain refused to answer him. Douglas wouldn't let it go. "Do you love Judith?"
Iain let out a sigh. Judith's brother was turning out to be one hell of a nuisance. "Do you honestly believe I would marry a Maclean if I didn't love her?"
Laird Maclean let out a snort of laughter. "Welcome to the family, son. ~ Julie Garwood

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. ~ Douglas Coupland

Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences. ~ Frances Hardinge

Sometimes we women are our own worst traps. Our hopes snatch us like quicksand. Our loneliness forges a cage. Sometimes all it takes is one sweet glance and kind word to make us forget ourselves. ~ Roshani Chokshi

There was something very slightly odd about him, but it was difficult to say what it was. ~ Douglas Adams

Religion is the archrival of intimate spirituality…Religion, a tiresome system of manmade dos and don'ts, woulds and shoulds – impotent to change human lives but tragically capable of devastating them – is what is left after a true love for God has drained away. Religion is the shell that is left after the real thing has disappeared. ~ Douglas Banister

Publicly traded corporations direct financial surpluses back to investors, CEOs, and boards of directors. They have little incentive to churn it back into the business and, as we have seen, a great deal of incentive to maximize surpluses at the expense of employees, the environment, and even the corporation itself.82 ~ Douglas Rushkoff

Farm to table is a personal choice. ~ Tom Douglas

The first thing he noticed was that Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, 'The Gilded Mousetrap School' he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not. ~ Ian Fleming

Don't you know that you can have anything you want?"
His eyes searched mine. "I'll hurt anyone for you. ~ Penelope Douglas

A liar freely gives his oath ~ Douglas Malloch

What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed. ~ Douglas Huebler

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. ~ Douglas Preston

Chaos lost in chaos. Liberty in being a small part of a larger madness. When you weren't seen, you weren't judged. There was a desirable freedom in that. ~ Penelope Douglas

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic. ~ Illeana Douglas

You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe. ~ Douglas Wilson

So let this disappointment do its work
My truest hopes have never failed
They have merely been buried
beneath the shoveled muck of disillusion
or encased in the carapace of self-serving desire.
It is only false hopes that are brittle, shattering like shells of thin glass to reveal the diamond hardness of the unshakeable eternal hopes within.
So shake and shatter all that would hinder my growth, O God. ~ Douglas Kaine McKelvey

By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else. ~ Douglas Coupland

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. ~ Douglas Coupland