Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no deadline from Swimming Australia or the Commonwealth Games Association.

There is never an easy time to move on but I feel I am doing so on a high after another great Australian Open.

John Howard

There is great commitment in Australia to further developing the relationship between our two countries.

Kevin Rudd

When Howard ... sends our diplomats into Washington to try and hush this whole thing up in the middle of our Australian federal election campaign, it's plain as day that they knew what the whole problem was.

Historical relationships have shown that the Australian dollar should be trading around 85 cents to 90 cents, given the recent sharp rise in gold. It does provide the case for the Australian dollar to play some catch up, particularly if the Fed rate-hike momentum loses favor with investors.

Guus Hiddink

He's a strong, determined character and an exponent of how I see Australian football.

Richard Flanagan

Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.

Asafa Powell

Well you know I wanted Australia to finish the race and give us a really good run so we could have done a better time, but unfortunately the baton fell.

Clive Woodward

We made the change for the France game but playing Australia it's right to go back to Tindall. He is a key part of our team and has been for a long time.

How we're going to manage the players through all this is something we're going to have to talk about. We have to make sure that our key guys like Freddie are fit and raring to go for the Australia and World Cup legs.

Kevin Pietersen

It is probably the start of the banter they want to get going before the Ashes. We know the Australian guys are great guys and we're good mates with them, which means the series will be played in good spirits.

Peter Carey

I thought that that was a really Australian story. And I wasn't mad at Dickens about that at all. I thought that seemed like us, in all sorts of ways.

Jeff Fatt

I think we've reached a lot of families. I don't think we're at the level yet of what we are in Australia in terms of the average guy going down the street knows about it. But certainly a lot of families do know us.

Yahoo Serious

I think we (the Australian film industry) is always in crisis but I think there needs to be a level playing field in which to make our films, which there isn't.

Shane Warne

I think Cameron is a future Australian Test player, provided he sticks to the way he plays and doesn't try to be someone different.

I think it's time the shouting match is done. The Australian ballot would end that.

Amanda Smith

It gives rise to the question how much can be done in Australia without putting the two together.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

Peter Chernin

He will retain his position as chairman and chief executive of News Ltd, News Corporation's Australian operations.

He will go down as one of the greats of Western Australian cricket not only for his efforts with the gloves and the bat but also for his leadership and team spirit.

He has gone to Australia to purely consult a knee specialist Dr. David Young, who has by the way, told us he'll be operating upon both knees on Tuesday to remove pieces of cartilage which are floating.

Robert Allenby

Greg is Australian golf. He doesn't owe the tour anything.

Greg has never gone out of his way to help Australian golfers ... we all looked up to him, ... He isn't the easiest person to talk to.

He is hard, consistent and reliable and a big competition performer. He wants to race for Australia and see an Australian on the podium.

He is a bloke who can win a World Cup for Australia - he is that good.

Eddie Jones

He gained some good experience in the Super 12 this year and for the Australian Under-21s in Argentina. He is a strong runner and physically equipped to play Test rugby.

He made a point of telling me they'd learned from what Australia has done, what they should be doing for their people (Bali survivors) in England.

Richard Flanagan

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'

Glenn isn't expecting to hold his existing place on the list. He was fairly high last year and he is realistic about things this time around. We will meet with Cricket Australia and find out officially where he is in the next couple of weeks. But he is expecting to slip a bit, just hopefully not too much.

Given the strength of the metals markets it looks like the Australian dollar will be in for a good couple of days.

Kevin Rudd

Given the size of India's population, Australia is clearly underperforming in its provision of these services.

If it hadn't been for the mining boom, Australia might be in a recession now.

Jane Elliot

I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968.