Melbourne Quotes

• Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

  William John Wills

  Littles, Lasts, Saws

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.48, London : R. Bentley

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• I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

  William John Wills

  States

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.20, London : R. Bentley

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• I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

  Lesley Garrett

  Years, House, Opera

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• I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

  Jackie Collins

  Cities, Australia, Trying

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• I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

  Anthony Holden

  Teacher, School, Literature

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• Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?

  Bette Midler

  Towns, Kind, Life After Death

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• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Fun, Dad

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• On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels.

  Helen Garner

  Summer, Morning, Tunnels

  "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.

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• I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

  Peter Temple

  Thinking, Crime Novels, Australia

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• I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.

  Curtis Stone

  Coffee, Home, Firsts

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• Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

  Jesse Spencer

  Cities, Chicago, Scene

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• All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.

  Charles Landry

  Keys, Skills, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• „Ma'am?“ She glanced up at me, pushing her glasses up her nose as she did. “Hmm? Oh, I remember you. Miss Melbourne.“ “Melrose,“ I corrected. “Are you sure? I could've sworn you were named after someplace in Australia.“ „Well, my first name is Sydney,“ I said, not sure if I should be encouraging her.

  Richelle Mead

  Glasses, Remember You, Remembers You

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• My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'

  Geoffrey Rush

  Travel, Strong, School

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• And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.

  Helen Garner

  Spring, Huffy, Trams

  "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.

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• Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have strikingly different characters and visual textures. To an American like me, there's basically Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the rest is all bush.

  Michael Bierut

  Character, Thinking, Cities

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.

  James Packer

  Stars, Thinking, Australia

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• One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

  Elspeth Huxley

  Children, Two, Three

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• Melbourne is a fantastic place to work, but it's not the centre of the world.

  Patricia Piccinini

  World, Fantastic, Centre

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• I didn't see much besides Melbourne and a quick trip down to the Twelve Apostles, but all the Aussies I encountered were good-spirited and had a fine sense of humor.

  Jim Goad

  Twelve, Sense Of Humor, Fine

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

  Barry Humphries

  Luck, World, Well Known

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• The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup

  Slim Dusty

  Sports, Dream, Heart

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• A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Couple

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• If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

  Trevor Nisbett

  Lonely, Home, Kids

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• we sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.

  Brian Henson

  Momentum, Festivals, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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