Australia Quotes - Page 12

• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Art, Writing

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• It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.

  Kimbra

  Home, America, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

  Donald Horne

  Running, Country, People

  Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Keys

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• If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.

  Pauline Hanson

  People, Politician, Parliament

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

  Pauline Hanson

  Opportunity, Government, Land

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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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 was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Hangover, Dancer

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

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• I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Thinking, Might

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sailing, Pieces

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.145, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

  Kristy Hinze

  Future, Unique, Forever

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Listening, Forgotten

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• Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, People, Watches

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• There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

  Donald Bradman

  Wisdom, People, Wish

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• I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...

  Ned Kelly

  Wisdom, Judging, May

  "Interview with Ned Kelly". "The Age", August 9, 1880.

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