Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Stone

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

Gin Wigmore

Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.

Colin Hay

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

Wayne Swan

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

Dannii Minogue

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

Kevin Rudd

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia.

Olly Murs

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

We can't lock everybody up forever or we will just turn back to the sort of society that founded Australia in the first place, with transportation and ridiculous sentences for minor crimes.

Steve Ballmer

We have very strong momentum, particularly in the northern parts of Europe, United States, Australia ... I know for sure, 100 percent, we will do much better in Japan than we did with Xbox 1,

Peter Singer

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

We had one who wanted us to fly them from Australia and another who wanted a Met Opera tenor to sing during dinner. I said that would cost them $200,000!

The decision was incorrect, not realistic and unilateral. I believe there was a better option. Ties between Indonesia and Australia are now entering a difficult phase that is full of challenges.

Deepa Mehta

We aren't talking about theatres where Indians largely attend. Yes, 'Water' has gone mainstream with an 80-print release all over the US. But before that we have a large release at the end of March in Spain and Australia in April.

Jacques Kallis

We had to strike early with the new ball and we did. Unfortunately, Australia took it to us, played aggressively and took their chances.

Baz Luhrmann

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

With commodity prices up strongly, and with the likelihood of the resources boom persisting for many months to come, it is hard to see Australia escaping without the need for higher interest rates.

Jeff Goodell

With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.

Duncan Fletcher

We will look to see who will need a rest before going to Australia and we will make plans accordingly.

We will be working as a team over the next few years to help raise the profile, awareness and funding for the Royal Flying Doctor Service through the Australian cricket network so they can continue to help Australians in need.

Bindi Irwin

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

Richie Benaud

But now that the series has been decided, the teams were well matched but Australia got a surprise.

You have News Corp. weaker, you have the banking sector basically steady but with Australia & New Zealand Banking Group pulling back after some strong gains in recent weeks ...outside of that the market is just steady.

Helen Garner

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

Emily Browning

The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow... We keep it nice and simple.

Gabrielle Aplin

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

Jacques Kallis

We knew we had to strike early, and we managed that. But Australia played as aggressively as they have all series, and in the end they deserved to win.

We understand that James may have an opportunity to play Davis Cup and because he played deep into the Australian Open, he would need some time off. We've already spoken about having him back in Delray Beach next year.

Stuart Appleby

We shouldn't be playing an Australian Open here. We should be playing on a top-10 course, ... To think that courses like Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath are sitting there while we play this place is ridiculous.

Bindi Irwin

One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.

We have sent our condolences via our chairman David Morgan, who is with the PCB chairman in Australia for the Super Series,

We have sent our condolences via our chairman (David Morgan), who is with the PCB chairman in Australia for the Super Series. We have sent our condolences to the people of Pakistan and we are looking at ways of helping Pakistan's relief funds as well.

There is potential for Australian marina developers in Thailand, now that Australian products enter tariff-free and more marinas are being built.

The papers and documents regarding the World Cup have just been sent to Cricket Australia. We have not set any deadlines (regarding the host country) but we know that the Australian board would soon let us know of their decision.