Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cate Blanchett

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Gough Whitlam

Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.

Jacki Weaver

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'

Jeffrey Archer

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

Chris Lilley

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

Eddie Jones

George is his own character. He is not a warm and fuzzy character in front of the media. He is certainly different in front of the Australian team. He is one of the funniest, most gregarious guys that you will meet. His persona in front of the media is slightly different.

John Connolly

George is definitely a talented player and someone who has so much to offer Australian Rugby now, and in the future.

Brad will remain in Australia until his wife has given birth and he is sure everything is okay.

Tom Moody

Both wickets can take a little bit of turn, particularly Adelaide, having had such a dry summer. The ball may turn a little bit more there, and the (shorter) square of the wicket boundaries also probably suit a few of our batsmen. But we are still going to have to play our best cricket to stretch Australia to the limit. We did that well in Sydney and we know going into the finals series that's the game we have to play.

Conrad Sewell

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

Besides recording, we have the Tooth & Nail tour coming up. After that -- and this is all tentative -- we're going to try to go to Australia and Japan with Copeland. There's no definite plans.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

Mike Gatting

Beating the Aussies is a wonderful thing but there's an experience the guys haven't had before and that's beating Australia in their own country, ... These guys haven't had that yet but I think they can do it.

As such, she is a member of the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games.

Pauline Hanson

The most noisy criticism came from the fat cats, bureaucrats and the do-gooders. They screamed the loudest because they stand to lose the most-their power, money and position, all funded by ordinary Australian taxpayers.

Some people were expecting not so good a result because of the dispute over the Western Australian rail contract. There's a bit of relief that the result is still a reasonable increase.

Peter Singer

So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.

Jacques Kallis

The momentum seems to be with us and Australia is feeling the pressure.

Glenn McGrath

The thing that disappoints me most is a lot of wickets around Australia are losing their character. It would be disappointing if all wickets around Australia are identical.

Tim Henman

I've always enjoyed coming to Doha and playing here. The Qatar Open offers a good tune-up before the Australian Open but I am not thinking about winning it.

Asafa Powell

I wanted Australia to really finish the race and give us a real good run so we could get a better time but it was unfortunate that the baton (for the Australians) fell.

So on this basis, and thanks to very strong earnings growth, the Australian share market is still cheap.

Tennis Australia wishes to pay tribute to Paul for his efforts over the past 12 years which have established the Australian Open as one of the world's marquee sporting events. His creativity and energy helped elevate the Australian Open to be on a par with the other three Grand Slams and set a benchmark for major sporting events in Australia and around the world. He leaves the Australian Open in a very healthy state after another hugely successful tournament.

It would be okay to go to Australia to fix a problem, but I don't want to go to the Honduras to work out any kinks.

James Blake

It was very important to me because half the tour is in Europe, ... I'm excited and it gives me confidence to know that I can win here. This is the first time I've had success in the European season. Other times I've kind of made my rankings just on the U.S. season and maybe down in Australia a little bit.

Michael Vaughan

It was an epic game. Australia are a very hard team to beat.

These brands are continuing to mislead thousands of Australian consumers,

These road trains are fine for the Australian outback but have no place on Britain's country lanes and town centres.

Sanath Jayasuriya

The series is going to be very tough, especially the Australian leg of the tour. It's a big task for us to regroup and get back to winning ways.

Bill Evans

The sharp fall in confidence does provide a warning signal that there are ongoing concerns with Australian consumers,

The start of a higher import price trend implies higher Australian inflation ahead.

The soaring price of petrol is now starting to pose a major threat to the Australian economy.

Graham Thorpe

The sides are pretty well matched. You probably look at the spin department, Australia are holding the edge in that department. But you could say it's pretty tight looking at the batting line-ups and the seam attacks.