Quote by Doug Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you hav

Summary

This quote suggests that receiving handmade presents can sometimes invoke a sense of unease or discomfort because it implies that the giver has excessive amounts of leisure time. The implication is that the act of creating something by hand requires a significant investment of time and those who possess that luxury may be deemed lazy or unproductive. The quote highlights a potentially negative perspective towards handmade gifts, emphasizing the underlying judgment or assumption that excessive free time is undesirable or unsettling.

Topics

Birthday

By Doug Coupland

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fa

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Power

There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There c

There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.

Legacy

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating i

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

History

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the g

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Gustav Jung

Genius

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Charles Baudelaire

Evil

James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. Y

James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. I owe you everything, and if you cannot believe I have empathy, perhaps you might at least believe I know honor--honor, and debt--

Cassandra Clare

Will Herondale Jem Carstairs

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

War

We think too much and feel too little.

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess.

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.

Life Inspirational Self Russia Royalty Russian Revolution Anastasia Otma Romanovs Tsar Nicholas

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessar

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Assumptions

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Love

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have f

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Life Meaning Universe