top of page
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

Standard 
 Customized
"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

Exlpore more Books quotes

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

Explore more quotes by Doug Coupland

Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."
Quote_1.png
Doug Coupland
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
bottom of page