Douglas Coupland Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fog, Car, Opera

• Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

  Douglas Coupland

  Eye, Gun, Car

• Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.

  Douglas Coupland

  Nice, Car, Crash

• But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Nice, Moving

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Strong, Heat Of The Sun

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

• Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

  Douglas Coupland

  Apology, Long, Car

• I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cancer, Years, Mirrors

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