Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hopper

The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.

Tom Moody

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun.

There is a reasonable fundamental picture for selling US dollars and the Australian dollar will benefit,

Chris Evans

There are plenty of Australians working for major firms overseas and they want to make sure they keep their Australian tax base intact, in the sense of being up-to-date with the latest that's happening.

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.

Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

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.

Jane Goodall

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Geoffrey Rush

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

Geoffrey Rush

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.

Geoffrey Rush

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

There is no place in Australian cricket for racism, whether it be on or off the field.

U.S. interest rates are pretty close to the top. By year- end it is quite likely the Fed will be shifting toward easing monetary policy and investors will be starting to wonder about a renewed widening in the Australian and U.S. interest-rate gap.

Dave Gorman

What this Australian guy meant when he said I was a Googlewhack,

We see the participants in the Australian health care market continuing to do very strongly,

Anthony Albanese

Australian seafarers make an important contribution to national security in a country with thousands of kilometres of uninhabited coastline.

The government of Indonesia is surprised and disappointed and deeply deploring this decision by the Australian Department of Immigration.

We drink VB, Victoria Bitter, which is way better.

We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

Ben Nicholas

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Eddie Jones

At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.

The jobs numbers weren't small enough to warrant a downgrade to the Australian dollar at this stage.

The IPO market has been boosted by the convergence of three factors - strong returns from the Australian equity market, a continued flood of cash from superannuation funds and the T3 effect.

This is a very favorable environment for the Australian dollar. The rate hike has come earlier than many in the market expected.

This is confirming that the Australian economy stepped down several gears in the second half of last year.

Peter Garrett

The thing I object to more than anything else is that we've got Australian foreign policy being determined by senior officials in Washington.

Jay Weatherill

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.