Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Origliasso

They take Australian talent overseas, develop it and try to get a major label to pick them up. So we were really lucky to sign with them. They sent us over the top.

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

Follow-up surveys in England found corresponding responses, while an Australian survey found an even higher percentage of that country's companies to be willing to strike back.

Craig Foster

For 30 years (the late) Johnny Warren talked about an English 'mafia' in Australian coaching,

Yahoo Serious

It's not the Olympics that are the problem, it's these big, horrible, formula, factory American comedies that are out there bashing our tiny, little film industry and when you're trying to celebrate the Australian culture you've got all this trash coming in there.

This is going to be the biggest summer of cricket that we've ever seen and we want to make sure that Australian cricket fans are there and make up the majority of the crowd.

This is an unfriendly gesture by the Australian government.

This is not something that we can do as Australian Federal Police by ourselves,

This is purely because of pressure from the Australian government.

This could be the last time and if it is the last time, I want to go out swinging, having a good time, and digging into the Australian talent pool.

John Alexander

It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just as we do with Lleyton.

Marcos Baghdatis

I told (my coach) if I win the Australian Open, I'll stop tennis. He told me if I win it, he'll stop working.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

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.

Pauline Hanson

The most noisy criticism came from the fat cats, bureaucrats and the do-gooders. They screamed the loudest because they stand to lose the most-their power, money and position, all funded by ordinary Australian taxpayers.

Some people were expecting not so good a result because of the dispute over the Western Australian rail contract. There's a bit of relief that the result is still a reasonable increase.

Peter Singer

So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.

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.

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.

There's good evidence that economic momentum globally is picking up and that's typically positive for commodities and the Australian dollar.

There's more Fed tightening to come than is currently priced into the market. That should see the U.S. dollar stronger and weigh on the Australian dollar.

Richard Roxburgh

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

a sad moment for the Australian people, who are overwhelmingly opposed to the sale.

The Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship celebrates its Centenary this year so it's pleasing to see our top Australian players coming out in force to support the event,

Scott Young

Australia's yield differential is getting close to disappearing altogether. This won't help the Australian dollar.

Australia's interest-rate margin will be maintained. The risk-reward for the Australian dollar is the upside.

Australian service suppliers and investors in sectors such as legal, financial and professional services, telecoms, education and environmental services will be the main beneficiaries of the FTA,

Australian rugby and our supporters expect their players to represent themselves, their team and their country in a manner befitting an international player. It is unfortunate that we have had to resort to such a measure, but in this instance we were left with no choice.