Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Chatwin

Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.

Jennifer Morgan

This project in Australia is just one example of what could go terribly wrong for the world's forests if the governments of Japan, Australia and the United States get their way next week at the climate summit in the Hague. Instead of reducing the pollution that causes global warming, these countries are looking for quick fixes that have high risks for forests.

This project has received great community support and I'm delighted the Australian Government has been able to allocate the funds needed to get this project over the line,

There are various, I guess, technical issues which need to be worked through but the really important message is that for Australian cricket fans we have created a window of priority access.

Shane Warne

There are two ways of looking at it, like a heavyweight title fight if Bangladesh beat Australia in a one-day game they'd be the best side in the world,

Sue Miller

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

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.

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.

Ben Hecht

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

The prime minister is not telling the truth about this because this has got nothing to do with anything good for the Australian economy,

What I am really looking for is the support of the Australian crowd, irrespective of who's competing. That's my job, to build up the focus and the support that the Australian team will be very proud of.

Andrew Flintoff

We need to peg Australia back and get a couple of quick wickets early on and take it from there.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

(Lee's) had a pretty hectic season, he's played nearly every game for Australia and he's done exceptionally well for us. He's bowled fast all the time so, once again, he's another one of those players that we're really going to have to manage a little bit, possibly a little bit better, in the future.

Many overseas tourists discover New Zealand on their way to Australia and wish they had budgeted more time for it, ... New Zealanders are a friendly, relaxed people. They welcome visitors and enjoy sharing the country's beauty and lifestyle.

Scott is desperate to stay in Wales and he desperately wants to coach the Wales team. He is trying to do everything he can with his family issues back in Australia to enable him to do that.

Seven out of 10 overall -- a couple of defensive deficiencies to let Australia through early. Once we got hold of it we played well, but we need to get the ball more.

She still takes the ball really early and still has unbelievably good hand-and-eye coordination. When she stopped playing before, she was good. And now, she has a lot of confidence from the Australian Open.

She went to Australia first semester (to study) and didn't come back with enough hours to be eligible.

The path of least resistance for the Australian dollar is down. Base-metal prices are likely to continue to come off a bit as inventories rebuild.

Bryan Brown

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Cate Blanchett

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.

Caroline Goodall

I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

Carolyn Kizer

I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

What we have seen yesterday is something I thought I would never see in Australia and perhaps we have not seen in Australia in any of our lifetimes. And that is a mass call to violence based on race.

Mark E. Smith

We are delighted that Craig Parry will be at the centenary event of the Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship - especially after his nail-biting win at the Heineken Classic earlier in the year.