Australia Quotes - Page 23

• 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.

  Stephen Fry

  Way, Reaching, Practicals

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• Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

  Mira Grant

  Spiders, Evolution, Should

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• Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, News, Today

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• On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

  Henry Lawson

  Jealousy, Land, Lines

  Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Friendship, Mom

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• Carbon capture and storage, its commercial development.. is going to be the key to the future of coal. If it is successful commercially, then the Australian coal sector will be a center of prosperity and growth; if it's not successful then it won't be. I think in the long run it's as simple as that.

  Ross Garnaut

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin goals of raising national prosperity and creating a fair and decent society.

  Julia Gillard

  Party, Creating, Goal

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• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Book, Athlete

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• I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.

  Hugo Weaving

  Coffee, Noses, Ears

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• This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Ideas, America

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• I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.

  Adam Bandt

  Hate, Party, Rights

  FaceBook post by Adam Bandt from Feb 12, 2013

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• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

  James Dwight Dana

  Nature, Ice, Feet

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• Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

  Adrian McKinty

  Drawing, Novelists, Noir

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• I genuinely believe if we get the chance to do something in Sydney, the people of Australia will win out of that proposal. There will be jobs, taxes, tourism - there'll be more people coming to Australia looking to spend money and I think that is a good thing.

  James Packer

  Jobs, Believe, Winning

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• I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great insight... But when the global financial crisis came along in 2008 it was scary times if you were in the middle of building $5 billion buildings. It wasn't perfect... I think that I am the luckiest person in Australia.

  James Packer

  Past, Thinking, Perfect

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• The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Japan, Break Through

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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• We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

  Iggy Azalea

  Basketball, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Gabriel, Peter

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• In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

  Mark Burnett

  Cutting, Europe, Class

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.

  David Gerrold

  Europe, Ideas, Rabbits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

  Paul Keating

  Country, May, Roles

  "Interview with former prime minister Paul Keating". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.

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• You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

  Paul Keating

  Asia, Regions, Security

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

  Dustin Clare

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

  Dustin Clare

  Mean, Nonsense, New Zealand

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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