Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mike Gatting

Beating the Aussies is a wonderful thing but there's an experience the guys haven't had before and that's beating Australia in their own country, ... These guys haven't had that yet but I think they can do it.

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.

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.

Patrick White

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

Graham Thorpe

This side has probably got a good four or five years, but Australia don't have that. This Australia side is the best they can put on the park, and they are at their peak.

We are obviously pretty down. It's been a titanic struggle. We sort of knock them but we can never get them down. Then Australia come back harder at us. That is the sign of a champion side. Just when we think we will land the killer blow, they come back harder at us all the time.

The time has come for Australia to drop Matthew Hayden,

Harry Reid

The United States has already fallen behind nations like Canada, Britain and Australia who finalized their avian flu plans months ago,

I see the Australian dollar as a strong currency trading very cheaply. Australia is a commodity-based economy, so with stronger commodity prices the currency should do better.

I've been trying to come to Australia for some time now. I just needed the right horse.

I've been out of Australian basketball now for quite a while and I feel that I've changed as a player and as a person and I certainly want to put my hand up and be one of the leaders on the team.

What any country now knows is that they've got a prime minister they can sit on, and that he will, if they've got some part of Australian law that they object to, there's a very good chance that when they sit on the prime minister, they will get a result.

What Canada is doing and we're a country of similar population, we're a major grain grower and what they're showing us is that even a target of about 1.4 billion litres of fuel per year in Australia is readily achievable,

We sold everything we had in Australia and invested it here. I want to rebuild but have to wait until I hear from the insurance company.

Through the next 12 months or so we're going to campaign on every front and try and win the support of the Australian community.

We just want Australia to be fair, like what they do with Middle East asylum-seekers.

Michael Healy

We just thought it was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Bill Evans

We look to 2007 for the next move when the current global move for higher interest rates is likely to be reversed and Australia will play its part.

We will not succumb to any pressure in relation to people who have no entitlement to be released into the Australian community,

Brian O'Driscoll

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Imogen Heap

On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

We wanted to celebrate not only Australia but also the spirit of rugby, a spirit which transcends national boundaries,

John Wallace

We've had more success than they (scientists in Australia and New Zealand) have. Everyone has been trying different methods. We just got lucky.

Nick Heidfeld

This season's Australian Grand Prix will certainly have a rather different feel about it. To start with, the race has been put back due to the Commonwealth Games, so there won't be that extra buzz you get when it's the first race of the season.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

We all know Australia have a strong team and have been playing very good cricket over the years.

There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.

Michael Vaughan

We go to Pakistan and India and if we win, the rankings might change but we haven't looked at the rankings, we want to beat Australia this summer.

Keith Urban

We go to Australia with LeAnn Rimes for a couple of weeks in October. We have a lot of shows between now and the end of the year.

Maurice Gibb

We expected to have a good time with Clive Davis 'cause I've always liked him, his shows. I've sort of followed his career a bit 'cause he had a lot of that on PBS over here.