Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Taylor

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

Yael Stone

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Yahoo Serious

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

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

L. Ron Hubbard

The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?

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'?

Thomas Keneally

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

Thomas Muster

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

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.

Rick Springfield

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

Rick Springfield

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.

Steve Irwin

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Steve Irwin

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

Stephen Fry

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.