Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Collins

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

Phil Collins

Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.

Peter Costello

The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.

Sean Mackin

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.

Marc Newson

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

Simon Baker

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

Sharon Salzberg

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.

Tony Abbott

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

Tony Abbott

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

Tony Abbott

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

Tony Abbott

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

Tony Abbott

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

Tony Abbott

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

Richie Benaud

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

Steven Wright

Do the people in Australia call the rest of the world 'Up Over'?

Richard Allen

Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

Steve Waugh

England have got to get back switched on because if they lose this series in Australia people will say, 'Has England really progressed that much?'.

E-mails are coming in from all over the world and as far away as Australia and the USA.

Steve Elkington

Elkington has got to be saying, 'I'm Australian and live in Houston - the heat is kind of cool here.'

Environment Australia will now move to the next stage of the process and I look forward to further cooperation and negotiations with stakeholders, in particular, the fishing industry,

enormous opportunities to Australian companies interested in profiting in the world's largest and most dynamic economy.

Graham Thorpe

England versus Australia is the biggest thing in cricket - it's like the US vs. Russia at ice hockey.

Ian Mckellen

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

Julian McMahon

Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly.

There's upwards of nearly 800 franchises through Australia and New Zealand, and also we're starting to move into Dubai, China and Indonesia as well.

Michael W. Smith

There's probably more growth here because it's still in a startup-type mode, whereas the Australian and the U.S. REIT markets are at more mature points in their cycles.

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.

As there will be relatively large level of redemption of Australian dollar-denominated bonds coming up, talk of unwinding of yen-carry positions is likely to drag on the dollar.

At these levels, the Australian dollar is looking attractive. A decline in U.S. interest-rate expectations is beneficial for Australia.

Corporate Australia is firmly behind the wheel of the Australian economy, while consumers have taken on the role of passengers in the current environment.

Don't kid yourself. Australia have never won this tournament before and are determined to win this one. They will send their best team.