Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Bishop

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.

Phillip Noyce

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

Margot Robbie

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

Paul Keating

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

Paul Keating

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

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable.

Peter Garrett

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

Peter Garrett

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

Pauline Hanson

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.

Eric Fellner

The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia; internationally they haven't worked so well because people don't know the films as well as in the English speaking languages. So when it comes to putting the budgets together it's quite challenging. So those are the problems you have.

John Howard

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

John Oliver

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

Judith Viorst

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Karrie Webb

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

Malcolm Campbell

The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

Thomas Muster

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

Steve Irwin

Statistically there's only one crocodile-related human fatality per year in the whole of Australia.

Steve Irwin

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.

Sourav Ganguly

Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.

Thomas Keneally

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

Rick Springfield

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

Rick Springfield

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Yael Stone

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

Yahoo Serious

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Rod Taylor

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

Australia is so entrenched in rock n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

Stephen Fry

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.