Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick White

Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.

Virgin Blue

Having secured over 30 per cent of the Australian domestic market, we are now focused on strengthening our network, developing our product for the business market and steadily building our presence as the low-fare value-based carrier in our region,

Guus Hiddink

He's a strong, determined character and an exponent of how I see Australian football.

Tony Roche

I think it's exciting times in Australian tennis right now,

James Hogan

It is a big rally in terms of the Australian market.

Kevin Rudd

When Howard ... sends our diplomats into Washington to try and hush this whole thing up in the middle of our Australian federal election campaign, it's plain as day that they knew what the whole problem was.

Paul Donnelly

In the Australian context there have been hybrid securities for corporations for 10 years. In Europe, this is a brand new, exciting market.

Alexander Downer

In addition, I will express Australian support for international efforts to meet the pressing humanitarian problems facing North Korea.

Jim Hunt

In the 1990s, they came in here and took out all of the plants that were not native to Florida. But little by little, some trees like the Australian pines and the Brazilian redwoods have reappeared.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

John Byng

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.

Bruce Schneier

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.

Julie Walters

I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.

Francesca da Rimini

I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Elizabeth Hurley

I feel like a semi-single mum.

Margot Robbie

My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.

Georgia May Jagger

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

Georgia May Jagger

My mum is actually really wholesome.

J. K. Rowling

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

Sam Taylor-Wood

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

Gia Coppola

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

Rachel Joyce

I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.

Ella Eyre

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Rhys Ifans

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

Rebecca Eaton

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Richard Ford

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Richard Ford

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

Richard Ford

To write you had to read so I backed into reading.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Gina Barreca

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

Simon Callow

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

Wang Guangya

I'm sure the co-sponsors will get our views and try to modify it. Otherwise, there will be a split in the council.

Susan Griffin

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

Mariella Frostrup

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

Chris Martin

Music is split up now into little pockets.

Jacques Barzun

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Kent Williams

Pam and I were worried that if it got in the wrong hands, the valley would be subdivided and split up,

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.