Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Attenborough

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

David Chalmers

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Amartya Sen

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

Andre Benjamin

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Andrew Strauss

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

Andrew Strauss

Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

Andrew Forrest

Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

Andrew Forrest

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

Andrew Flintoff

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

Rob Cohen

The crew in Australia was the best I ever had,

will resolve the situation satisfactorily and will resolve any concerns Australian officials may have with respect to the (disease) status of Canada.

While the Australian economy continues to report sub-trend growth, the December results reinforce the point that it is still performing reasonably well. Conditions improved in December, driven by stronger-than-expected trading and profitability.

Patrick White

Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.

Eddie Campbell

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

Jared Diamond

Australia is the most isolated continent.

There is a lot of Australia and New Zealand pride around here.

There is certainly no fresh concern or panic at the FA today in light of the statement issued to the Australian Stock Exchange overnight.

Tom Hopper

The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.

Tom Moody

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

Barry Gibb

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else

Bella Heathcote

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

Demetri Martin

The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import).

Elizabeth Hurley

I have always been attracted to Australians and Australia.

Ava Gardner

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

There is a reasonable fundamental picture for selling US dollars and the Australian dollar will benefit,

Chris Evans

There are plenty of Australians working for major firms overseas and they want to make sure they keep their Australian tax base intact, in the sense of being up-to-date with the latest that's happening.

Gough Whitlam

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Gina Rinehart

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

We've sort of knocked them but we could never get them down and then Australia have come back harder at us. Just when we think we're going to land the killer blow, they tend to come back. When you play under that sort of pressure, something had to give.

Ann Wilson

The extremely low level of organ donation in Australia is leaving hundreds of people young and old living on the edge for an average of four years with their lives on hold while waiting for a telephone call for a kidney transplant.

The real factor for this stock remains the pricing environment. They and their Australian competitors are suffering, and some of the Japanese steelmakers are also affected.

Jane Goodall

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.